- Author
- Tran, H. C.
- Title
- Modelling of Wall Fires of Selected Wood Products.
- Coporate
- Forest Products Lab., Madison, WI
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- IUFRO World Congress, 19th. August 1990, Montreal, Canada, 1-12 p., 1990
- Keywords
- wall fires | wood | fire models | fire growth | zone models | experiments
- Abstract
- The paper summarizes the research progress made by the Forest Products Laboratory and the National Forest Products Association to develop and validate algorithms for wall and corner fires within the compartment of fire origin. The approach includes bench-scale and full-scale experiments. The bench-scale tests are for establishing material thermophysical and fire properties such as ignition, flame spread rate, and rate of heat and smoke production. A wide range of scenarios of full-scale tests were conducted to establish a data base that would be suitable for validating a model. The paper describes some highlights of bench-scale and full-scale test results, as well as empirical correlations between benc-scale and full-scale data. A philosophy of validation for an 'idealized' two-zone model is proposed.