- Author
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Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Closed-Form Approximation for Post-Flashover Compartment Fire Temperatures.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 4,
No. 1,
63-73,
August 1981
- Keywords
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compartment fires
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flashover
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thermoplastics
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wood
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burning rate
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pool fires
|
crib fires
- Identifiers
- post-flashover compartment fires; wood crib fires; computer codes
- Abstract
- A method is developed, suitable for design purposes, which allows approximate post-flashover fire temperatures to be calculated without the use of computer codes. This method may be used for thermoplastic pool fires, wood crib fire, and other fires of known fuel release rate.