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| Title: | Burn properties of fabrics and garments worn in India |
| Authors: | Bhalla, S Bawa
Kale, S R
Mohan, D |
| Keywords: | Dummy
Dress
Dress assembly
Garments
Fabrics
Fire safety
Burning
Burns
Indian |
| Issue Date: | 2000 |
| Citation: | Accident Analysis and Prevention, 32(3), 407–420 |
| Abstract: | A full-scale human form dummy was designed for studying the burning of common dress assemblies (i.e. combination of garments) worn in India. The dummy was made in eight parts; each made of a steel shell filled with water so as to replicate properties of skin–tissue combination. Four thermocouples were fixed on the dummy for measuring torso, neck and face temperatures. The dummy was clothed separately in three women’s dress assemblies (saree, salwar–khameez and nightgown) and men’s dress assemblies (kurta–pyjama, shirt–pant and lungi), and ignited at the feet by a flat flame. The tests showed that loose fitting garments burnt easily. Once completely burnt, all dress assemblies result in third degree burns over most of the body. The
burning process of synthetics is radically different from cottons or cotton–polyester blends. However, flame duration and temperatures produced on the skin are not radically different, suggesting that on the whole synthetics are no worse than cotton
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| URI: | http://eprint.iitd.ac.in/dspace/handle/2074/758 |
| Appears in Collections: | Mechanical Engineering
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