Upholstered Furniture: Prediction by Correlations.
Upholstered Furniture: Prediction by Correlations.
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Ames, S. A.; Babrauskas, V.; Parker, W. J.
Chapter 15;
Heat Release in Fires, Elsevier Applied Science, NY,
Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editor(s)(s), 519-543
pp, 1992.
Keywords:
heat release rate; fire protection engineering;
upholstered furniture; fire tests; fire behavior;
upholstery; furniture calorimeters; large scale fire
tests
Abstract:
A detailed model for furniture combustion, of the sort
described in the preceding chapter, represents the
best-possible, state of the art calculation. For most
purposes in design and evaluation, however, it is
sufficient to obtain less accurate results, if they can
be obtained by simple measurement techniques. In this
Chapter we will examine large-scale measurements of heat
release rates of upholstered furniture. Based on such
measurements, we will intorduce several techniques for
predicting the essence of the full-scale behavior by
judicious use of bench-scale test results.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899