- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Estimating Room Flashover Potential.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Fire Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, 94-103, May 1980
- Report
- CIB W14/82/29 (USA),
- Keywords
- flashover | room fires | combustion | occupants
- Identifiers
- combustion model
- Abstract
- Flashover is the ultimate event in a room fire signaling the final untenability for room occupants and greatly increased hazard to other building spaces. Despite this importance, hazard evaluations of furnishings and other common fuel loads have normally not been based on estimates of flashover potential. This paper consider a simple combustion model and examines available experimental data.