Electronic Equipment Vulnerability to Fire-Released Carbon Fibers.

Abstract

The vulnerability of electronic equipment to damage by carbon fibers released from burning aircraft type structural composite materials was investigated in a shock tube facility. Tests were conducted on commercially available stereo power amplifiers which showed that the equipment was damaged by fire released carbon fibers but not by the composite resin residue, soot and products of combustion of the fuel associated with burning the carbon fiber composites. The limited testing indicated that the failure rates of the equipment exposed to the fire released fiber were consistent with predictions based on tests using virgin fibers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA301742

Entities

People

  • Austin D. Mchatton
  • Kenneth A. Musselman
  • Richard A. Pride

Organizations

  • Langley Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Amplifiers
  • Carbon Fibers
  • Circuit Boards
  • Combustion
  • Composite Materials
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Resistance
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Measurement
  • Photographs
  • Power Amplifiers
  • Printed Circuits
  • Shock Tubes
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Reinforced Composite Materials

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems