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Berg Engineering Project.

Research by Hamza Shaikh.

Mechanism:

Electrical or electro-hydraulic mechanisms can be incorporated enabling the Folding textile

based fabric to deploy and retract easily, once triggered using the remote.

List of Fire Retardant Materials:

• PBI

• Burnstop

•  Twaron

• Nofan

• Nomex (a uPont tra!emark"

• #rse$on (%him&o$okno tra!emark"

• coate! ny$on

• 'arbon oam

• )* +ber

• %e&$ar

• )e$amine

• Pyro&atex ,r cotton

•  Technora• )o!acry$ic

• -oo$

Fire Retardant Materials used in Textiles: These can be

used in our Situation.

ool 

It is the texti$e +bre obtaine! ,rom sheep an! certain other

anima$s inc$u!in/ cashmere ,rom /oats. It has the 0ua$ity o,

bein/ e$astic.

-oo$ i/nites at a hi/her temperature than cotton an! some

synthetic +bres. It has a $ower rate o, fame sprea! a $ower

rate o, heat re$ease a $ower heat o, combustion an! !oes not

me$t or !rip -oo$ carpets are speci+e! ,or hi/h sa,ety

en&ironments such as trains an! aircra,t. -oo$ is usua$$y

speci+e! ,or /arments ,or +re+/hters so$!iers an! others inoccupations where they are expose! to the $ike$ihoo! o, +re.

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!omex 

It is a re/istere! tra!emark ,or fame1resistant meta1

arami! materia$. It is so$! in both +bre an! sheet ,orms an! is

use! as a ,abric where&er resistance ,rom heat an! fame isre0uire!. It is use! in &arious app$ications inc$u!in/ the he$mets

o, +re +/hters. Nomex is best known as a barrier to +re an!

heat

Pol"ben#imida#ole $ber

Po$ybenzimi!azo$e +bre is a synthetic +bre with a &ery hi/h

me$tin/ point. It has exceptiona$ therma$ an! chemica$ stabi$ity

an! !oes not rea!i$y i/nite. This materia$ has the capabi$ity o,resistin/ fame

T%aron

It is a$so a heat resistant an! stron/ synthetic +bre. It is use!

main$y ,or In!ustria$ purposes. Some o, the main uses inc$u!e

fame1resistant c$othin/ protecti&e c$othin/ an! he$mets cut1

,ast or heat1har!y /$o&es sportin/ /oo!s texti$es an! ba$$istic

&ests.

P&' 'oated Fabric:

 

https233en.wikipe!ia.or/3wiki3-oo$4'haracteristics

https233en.wikipe!ia.or/3wiki3Nomex

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