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Author
Shields, J. | Silcock, G. W. H. | Flood, F.
Title
Behavior of Double Glazing in Corner Fires.
Coporate
FireSERT, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 6QB
Journal
Fire Technology, Vol. 41, No. 1 / 1st Quarter, 37-65, January 2005
Keywords
glazing materials | corner fires | fire behavior | fire safety | safety engineering | enclosures | glass | cracking (fracturing) | windows | experiments | heat transfer | gas temperature | temperature profiles | surface temperature | heat flux
Identifiers
double glazing; incident fluxes; glass breakage; loss of window glass integrity; summary of results: inner panes; summary of results: outer panes; local exposed glass; local shaded glass; total incident thermal flux; convective and radiative heat fluxes; total incident heat flux distribution and first cracking; lumped model analysis