- Author
- Bukowski, R. W.
- Title
- Predicting Product Fire Risk: A Review of Four Case Studies. CFR Video Seminar.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Video, August 28, 1990,
- Keywords
- fire risk | case histories | fire risk assessment
- Abstract
- A methodology which can be employed to predict product fire risk has been developed in a project funded by a broadly based consortium of manufacturers and trade associations through the National Fire Protection Research Foundation (NFPRF). It builds on recent advances in deterministic fire modeling to provide a physics-based method of estimating the severity of specified fires while retaining the probabilistic framework of traditional risk analysis for estimation of the relative probabilities of various types of fires. This fire risk assessment method is designed to permit the quantitative prediction of the change in expected fire fatalities per year attributable to changes in fire performance properties of combustible products (e.g., building contents and furnishings) in the context of their end use in specific occupancies.