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Author
Hofmann, A. | Knaust, C. | Beard, A.
Title
Modeling Fire Scenarios in Residential Buildings With Respect to the Benefit of Smoke Detectors and Flame Retardants.
Coporate
Federal Institute of Material Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany European Flame Retardants Association c/o Cefic, Bruxelles, Belgium
Book or Conf
Flame Retardants 2006. (Flame Retardants '06). 12th Conference Proceedings. British Plastics Federation and Interscience Communications in collaboration with the Association of Plastics Manufacturers, European Flame Retardant Association and the Fire Retardant Chemicals Association. February 14-15, 2006, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, London, England, 195-214 p., 2006
Keywords
flame retardants | residential buildings | smoke detectors | scenarios | fire losses | fire statistics | heat relese rate | furniture | experiments | large scale fire tests | computational fluid dynamics | validation | numerical models | geometry | chairs | combustion | temperature | living rooms | couches | television | upholstery | fire risks | upholstered furniture
Identifiers
Europe; Germany; fatalities and room of fire origin in the UK; large scale tests in furnished rooms; home geometry; discretization of model geometry; subsidised home