- Author
- Tewarson, A.
- Title
- Heat Release Rate in Fires.
- Coporate
- Factory Mutual Research, Norwood, MA
- Journal
- Fire and Materials, Vol. 4, No. 4, 185-191, 1980
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- CIB W14/80/17 (USA); RC79-TP-69,
- Book or Conf
- Armstrong Symposium on Fire Power, December 3-4, 1979., Lancaster, PA, 1-25 p., ['1979', '1980']
- Keywords
- heat release rate | mass loss | fuels
- Identifiers
- heat of combustion; mass loss rate
- Abstract
- In this paper the definition of heat release rate in fire is given in terms of heat of combustion and mass loss rate of the fuel. Various components of the heat of combustion are defined.