- Author
-
Rockett, J. A.
- Title
- Two Approaches to the Analysis of Actual Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 9,
No. 1,
17-28,
May 1985
- Book or Conf
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Computer Applications in Fire Protection: Analysis, Modeling, and Design. March 19-21, 1984,
Leesburg, VA,
32 p.,
1985
- Keywords
-
fires
- Abstract
- Two calculations are described. One used only simple algebra to show the rate of development of a critical aspect of a fire. The other used one of our most elaborate computer based schemes to extend the results of full-scale fire tests to additional, important situations. Both provided useful results. The significance of this is that it is not the complexity of a calculation that is important but its relevance to the problem at hand.