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Information Sciences Letters

Information Sciences Letters

Abstract

There are more than 60% of homes, institutions, care homes, hospitals, hotels, reception places and transportation have carpets and rugs covering the floors. The quantity of fire damages and the ignition of these floor covering may hurt people and children living in these places causing death when exposing to them for long time. Among the used carpets are those with volatile organic elements (VOC S) containing toluene, benzene, formaldehyde and other chemicals, some of which have already formed substance (EPA S), which is included in the list of highly dangerous substances, In this article identify the best woven or non-woven floor coverings used in the Jazan region according to their resistance burning to fit the functionality safely by using methenamine tablet test. Eleven samples of different types of pile and construction were used and conclude that when the woven or non-woven floor coverings are exposed to an ignition source, the mixed pile from polyester and polypropylene fibers and the pile of 100% polyester passes the methenamine test, while the floor coverings with 100% polyacrylic and 100% polypropylene did not Pass the test, as there is a direct correlation at the level of significance at the 0.01 between ignition time (s)and both pile thickness (mm) and Total sample thickness (mm), There is also direct correlation at the level of significance at the 0.05 between Total sample weight g/m2 and Average sample weight g/400cm2 and therefore there is a huge risk in using these types in places, so we must take preventive measures against the dangers of fires, and achieve the possibility of controlling them in the event of their outbreak and putting them out as soon as possible with minimal losses, using floor covering that passes various fire tests according to standard specification (ASTM D2859). Our findings indicated that polypropylene and polyester mixed-pile floor coverings and 100% polyester floor coverings are preferable more than manufactured floor coverings made of 100% polypropylene or 100% polyester.

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