- Author
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Waterman, T. E.
- Title
- Relation of Building Occupancy and Design to Use of Combustible Materials of Construction. Interim Report.
- Coporate
- IIT Research Institute, Chicago, IL
- Sponsor
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Chicago, IL
- Report
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Interim Report,
October 1968,
78 p.
- Keywords
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fire protection
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construction
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combustible materials
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building design
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test facilities
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flame spread
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smoke
- Identifiers
- real fires; reference fires; finish fires; computer plots for a typical finish experiment; gas concentrations for a typical finish experiment
- Abstract
- The overall objectives of the program are as follows: 1. To provide bases for determining, by standard test procedures, the behavior of combustible materials in actual fire environments. That is, from the behavior in actual fires of materials that were previously characterized by standard tests, to determine the rationales for using standard tests to predict the behavior of materials and to control their usage. 2. To provide methods for judging the contributions to life hazard associated with these material behaviors. 3. To evolve realistic approaches to fire safety codes which account for all pertinent properties of materials, configuration and quantity of materials, and building occupancy. This is a summary of experimental results and their significance. The experimental work reported deals with that portion of the program which is concerned with measurements of the outputs -- smoke, heat, and gases -- of fully-developed real occupancy fires, and the determination of the contribution to those outputs from combustible finish materials placed on the walls or ceiling on either the room of fire origin or an adjacent corridor.