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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
bibliographies | combustion | fire extinguishment | fire models | fire spread | fire suppression | 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.