[SystemSafety] Fire tests on Panelling

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2017-06-26 11:40 , Dominey, Alan (UK) wrote:>
> What beats me is that they would use Aluminium at all, in the first place . . .

Because aluminium and magnesium alloys have the highest specific strength of metals, even higher
than titanium, and you want panels to weigh as little as possible, in particular if they are a
retrofit to an existing design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength
> It is, after all, itself flammable (hence the MoT requires huge amounts of fire lagging on
> aluminium hulled marine passenger vessels) . . .

Yes, well, magnesium is worse from a flammability point of view, as any navy person will tell us.
They are surrounded by it as superstructure.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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