- Title
- Home Fire Project: 1972-1982. Final Report. October 1982.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NBS GCR 82-416; Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 56,
November 1982,
49 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- G-9011
- Keywords
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bibliographies
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combustion
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fire extinguishment
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fire models
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fire spread
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fire suppression
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large scale fire tests
- Abstract
- This report is a review of the accomplishments of a joint fire research effort between Harvard University and Factory Mutual Research Corporation. The summary applies to a ten year period - 1972-1982. A catalogue of subjects is presented with a technical description of the work along with an annotated bibliography. The subjects include: spontaneous combustion, fire spread, vitiated combustion, radiation from flames, radiation scaling, vent flow, extinguishment, atmospheric modeling, pressure modeling, full-scale tests, and the computation of a fire.