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