Corner Mattress Fire

Corner 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, 0 kW 30 s, 0 kW 60 s, 0 kW 90 s, 10 kW
120 s, 50 kW 150 s, 90 kW 180 s, 150 kW 210 s, 260 kW
240 s, 580 kW 270 s, 870 kW 300 s, 1.0 MW 330 s, 890 kW
360 s, 390 kW 390 s, 170 kW 420 s, 70 kW

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 1.6 MB 1.6 MB
6 frames per second 9.4 MB 9.6 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