- Author
- Torvi, D. A. | Hadjisophocleous, G. V. | Hum, J.
- Title
- New Method for Estimating the Effects of Thermal Radiation From Fires on Building Occupants.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
- NRCC 43937,
- Distribution
- For more information contact: Website: http://www.nrc.ca/irc/fulltext/nrcc43937/
- Book or Conf
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Division. HTD-Vol. 366-5. Volume 5. Proceedings. December 2000, Orlando, FL, 65-72 p., 2000
- Keywords
- occupants | thermal radiation | heat flux | fire models | equations | skin burns (human) | heat transfer | clothing | life hazards
- Identifiers
- effects of high heat fluxes on occupants; burn damage to bare skin; burn damage to clothed skin; burn dmage after destruction of clothing; total probability of death due to high thermal radiaiton heat fluxes; times to key events as calculated by the New Life Hazard Model