Technical Reference Guide for FPEtool Version 3.2.
Technical Reference Guide for FPEtool Version 3.2.
(1252 K)
Deal, S.
NISTIR 5486-1; 137 p. April 1995.
Sponsor:
General Services Administration, Washington, DC
Available from:
ONLY Australian Fire Protection Assoc.
Ltd., Victoria, Australia Phone: 61+3+320-5577
Keywords:
computer programs; detector response; evacuation models;
fire research; fire models; tenability; safety
engineering; performance evaluation; sprinkler response;
fire safety
Abstract:
[*]This report Supersedes NISTIR 5486[*]
FPEtool is a collection of computer simulated procedures
providing numerical engineering calculations of fire
phenomena to the building designer, code enforcer, fire
protection engineer and fire-safety related
practitioner. Version 3.2 newly incorporates an estimate
of smoke conditions developing within a room receiving
steady-state smoke leakage from an adjacent space.
Estimates of human viability resulting from exposure to
developing conditions within the room are calculated
based upon the smoke temperature and toxicity. There is
no modeling of human behavior. Also new to this release
is the estimation (in the FIRE SIMULATOR procedure) of
the reduction in fire heat release rate due to sprinkler
suppression.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899