- Author
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Apte, V.
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Griffin, G. J.
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Paroz, B. W.
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Bicknell, A. D.
- Title
- Fire Behavior of Rendered Straw Bales.
- Coporate
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia
- Journal
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Fire and Materials,
Vol. 32,
No. 5,
259-279,
August/September 2008
- Keywords
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straw
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fire behavior
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smoldering combustion
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mathematical models
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fire safety
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heat flux
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construction
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rural population
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thermocouples
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equations
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mass balance
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oxygen
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thermogravimetric analysis
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kinetics
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material properties
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temperature profiles
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mass transfer
- Identifiers
- straw bales; combustion behavior of compacted, rendered straw bales exposed to two radiant heat flux regimes; thermocouple locations for the earth- and lime-rendered straw bales; calculated reaction parameters for straw; reaction/process parameters used in the model; straw bales rendered with either a lime-based material or an earth-based material