- Author
-
Pagni, P. J.
- Title
- Materials Fire Properties and Test Methods.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Report
-
NBSIR 85-3118,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. 7th Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety. October 24-28, 1983,
Gaithersburg, MD,
293-299 p.,
['1983', '1985']
- Keywords
-
test methods
- Abstract
- Per the resolutions of the Sixth Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Safety and Research, this introductory progress report will address identification of material fire-related properties necessary to serve as inputs to a performance fire code. The concern here is with definition. The question of the appropriateness of existing fire test methods, which have been reviewed in the literature, will not be considered. Recent developments in test methods and suggestions for new test methods will also be delayed unitl a concensus has been reached on which properties must be quantified. With this goal in mind the material properties required by current compartment fire computer codes are examined. The amount and geometry of each material present, the compartment geometry and acceptable protocols for determining convective and radiative transfer coefficients are assumed to be known.