Two Panel Workstation Fire

Two panel workstation fire time-line

This test was sponsored by the General Services Administration (GSA) and performed at BFRL in 1991. Times are in seconds from ignition. Select a picture to view a larger version.

0 min, 0 kW 1 min, 10 kW 2 min, 70 kW 3 min, 215 kW 4 min, 680 kW
5 min, 1.7 MW 6 min, 1.4 MW 7 min, 1.5 MW 8 min, 1.3 MW 9 min, 1.3 MW
10 min, 1.1 MW 12 min, 960 kW 14 min, 880 kW 16 min, 690 kW 18 min, 710 kW
20 min, 750 kW 22 min, 730 kW 24 min, 600 kW 26 min, 530 kW 28 min, 480 kW
30 min, 490 kW 34 min, 400 kW 38 min, 380 kW 42 min (no data)

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 1.2 MB 1.2 MB
6 frames per second 6.9 MB 7.0 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.



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