- Author
- Ingason, H.
- Title
- Model Scale Railcar Fire Tests.
- Coporate
- SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, 271-282, June 2007
- Keywords
- passenger trains | scale models | fire tests | heat release rate | compartments | fire safety | tunnels | equations | railroads | cardboard | cone calorimeters | plywood | instruments | combustion
- Identifiers
- passenger train compartment (railcar); calculate the heat release rate for a flashed over train compartment with simple mathematical expressions; large scale experimental data on fully developed fires in railcars; results from the cone calorimeter tests for a 6 mm thick corrugated cardboard at 50 kW/m2; results from the cone calorimeter tests for a 12 mm thick ordinary Plywood board at 50 kW/m2; summary of test conditions prior to test; summary of the test results of the model scale tests of a railcar compartment fire