Dresser Fire

Dresser fire time-line

This test was performed at BFRL in February 1996. Times are in seconds from ignition. Select a picture to view a larger version.

0 s, 5 kW 60 s, 62 kW 120 s, 110 kW 180 s, 200 kW
240 s, 310 kW 300 s, 590 kW 360 s, 880 kW 420 s, 1.8 MW
480 s, 1.1 MW 540 s, 580 kW 600 s, 430 kW 660 s, 480 kW
720 s, 500 kW 780 s

The fire size in kilowatts versus time

Fire Data

The heat release data for this case is incorporated into the default one-room case for CFAST/FASTLite. If you are running FASTLite, we suggest that you copy this file into the default example directory, C:\FLITE . The data is also available in a spread sheet (comma delimited) format.

Animations

View a movie of this fire by downloading one of the following quicktime or mpeg files.

Frame RateAnimation Format
Quick TimeMPEG
1 frame per second 1.4 MB 1.5 MB
6 frames per second 8.6 MB 8.7 MB

Using a 14.4 kb modem, it takes about one minute to download each animation for every 60 kbytes in size. These animations were converted from video by the Scientific Applications Support Group at NIST.



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