BFRL ICON Radiant Ignition of Adjacent Upholstered Furniture: A Simple Approach. (Abstract/Presentation)


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Fleischmann, C. M.

NIST SP 998; May 2003.

Keywords:

fire growth; fire spread; upholstered furniture; radiant ignition; experiments; radiation modeling

Abstract:

This presentation describes the work in progress to predict the ignition of upholstered furniture. The efforts have focused in two major areas: how to best predict the radiation from the initial burning item and given the exposing heat flux, when will the adjacent upholstered furniture item ignite.



Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899