Analysis of Fire Suit with Flame Test Manikin System

Abstract

Firefighters are involved in managing different types of firefighting activities for the safety of society from fire accidents. Their life is very important. So, it is required to test firefighting/heat resistant clothing depending on the end usage. There are different international standard to test the heat resistant clothing. Nowadays instrumented flame test manikin system, is being used for testing of complete body fire ensembles. Heat resistant clothing performance can be evaluated using an assessment based on an instrumented manikin under controlled fire condition similar to real-life fire.