- Author
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Quintiere, J. G.
- Title
- Analytical Methods for Fire Safety Design.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Technology,
Vol. 24,
No. 4,
333-352,
November 1988
- Report
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CIB W14/88/12 (USA); NBSIR 87-3675,
November 1987,
36 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- National Research Council. Report From the 1987 Workshop on Analytical Methods for Designing Buildings for Fire Safety. October 14-16, 1987,
National Research Council, Washington, DC,
Washington, DC,
55-70 p.,
1988
- Keywords
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fire models
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buildings
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fire growth
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bibliographies
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literature reviews
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zone models
- Identifiers
- computational models
- Abstract
- The ability to predict aspects of fire and its impact on a building's structure, contents and people is discussed in terms of its application to safety design. It is presented from the perspective of how research has addressed the prediction of fire phenomena. A review of the state of the art on the capability for predicting the fire, its impact and response, is given. Examples are cited to illustrate the scope and accuracy of predictive methods and how they are being incorporated into some codes and standards.