- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Comparative Rates of Heat Release From Five Different Types of Test Apparatuses.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 2, 148-159, March/April 1986
- Keywords
- aircraft compartments | fire tests | flashover | plastics | oxygen consumption | thermopiles
- Abstract
- Previously reported rates of heat release using five different bench-scale test methods are compared with each other and against a limited series of large-scale tests. The materials tested were low-flammability wall lining materials, of a construction similar as might be used for aircraft cabin walls. Based on the peak values at different irradiances, three of the methods gave similar results: the Cone Calorimeter, the FMRC Flammability Apparatus, and the Flame Height Apparatus. The other data, from the OSU calorimeter in the thermopile mode and the OSU calorimeter in the oxygen-consumption mode, gave results typically 1/2 of the first three methods. Simple techniques for predicting full-scale performance from bench-scale data are emerging. The preliminary application of these appears promising.