- Author
- Loftus, J. J. | Gross, D. | Robertson, A. F.
- Title
- Fuel Potential Test Method.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS 6807, April 6, 1960, 20 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM: National Archives, Civilian Records, Room 2800, 8601 Adelphia Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001, Telephone: 301-713-7230
- Contract
- NBS-PROJECT-1002-12-10120
- Keywords
- test methods; fuel combustion
- Abstract
- Modifications have been made to a method, currently a standard of the French government, for assessment of the combustible characteristics of building materials. This method makes use of bomb combustion calorimetric techniques in which the combustion of small quantities of combustible in an otherwise inert material is insured by use of a combustion accelerator which is added prior to test. By performing calorimetric measurements both before and after exposure to a "standardized fire" (muffle at 750 deg. C with controlled air supply) the difference may be considered as the fuel potential. A series of measurements of this property have been made for a variety of building materials and the results reported. A discussion is included on the precision of the test method.