Author: NATIONAL MATERIALS ADVISORY BOARD (NAS-NAE) WASHINGTON DC.

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Published: 1979

Total Pages: 212

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This is the eighth volume in a series. The fire safety aspects of polymers are examined with primary emphasis on human survival. This volume is concerned with the polymeric materials used in subway, surface, and elevated urban railway vehicles; railroad vehicles; other rail vehicles (including unattended and semicontrolled type); buses, trucks; passenger automobiles; and miscellaneous vehicle types (including motorcycles and snowmobiles). This report examines the fire safety aspects of those polymeric materials currently used, or expected to be used, in land vehicles that transport people and materials. Excluded from consideration are specific materials such as fuels, engine lubricants and other engine polymers and hydraulic fluids.