Flammability of Upholstered Furniture.
Flammability of Upholstered Furniture.
(758 K)
Ohlemiller, T. J.
NISTIR 6030; June 1997.
U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural
Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint
Panel Meeting. Volume 2. March 13-20, 1996,
Gaithersburg, MD, Beall, K. A., Editor(s), 215-223 pp,
1997.
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB97-184204
Keywords:
fire safety; fire research; upholstered furniture;
flammability; high rise buildings
Abstract:
Upholstered furniture flammability is both an
ignitability and a heat release rate issue. Limited
work on ignitability has been done recently. The major
focus in three recent studies is the intensity of
burning which follows exposure to a source strong enough
to assure ignition. No adequate model of the
post-ignition fire growth process exists. Examination
of the attempts to correlate Cone Calorimeter data with
full-scale heat release rate shows mixed results.
Reasonably good correlations have been obtained but it
is not clear that they have broad applicability and thus
clear usefulness in designing furniture with known fire
performance.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899