Center Mattress Fire
Center mattress 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, 10 kW |
30 s, 15 kW |
60 s, 50 kW |
90 s, 240 kW |
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| 120 s, 500 kW |
150 s, 740 kW |
180 s, 650 kW |
210 s, 640 kW |
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| 240 s, 530 kW |
270 s, 330 kW |
300 s, 180 kW |
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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.
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
