- Author
- Janssens, M. | Gomez, C.
- Title
- Thornston's Constant Revisited.
- Coporate
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
- Book or Conf
- Fire and Materials 2009. 11th International Conference. Conference Papers. Proceedings. Organised by Interscience Communications Limited. January 26-28, 2009, Interscience Communications Limited, London, England, San Francisco, CA, 91-102 p., 2009
- Keywords
- measurement uncertainities | oxygen consumption | calorimetry | heat release rate | fire tests | solid fuels | liquid fuels | wood | equations | ASTM D 5865 | ASTM D 7309
- Identifiers
- Thornton's Rule; Huggett's data for solid fuels; effect of E on measurement uncertainty; E values tabulated by Babrauskas; E values tabulated byTewarson; carbon-hydrogen atoms in the structure; carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen atoms in the structure; carbon-hydrogen-chlorine atoms in the structure; carbon-hydrogen-fluorine atoms in the structure; carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-silicone atoms in the structure; White's data for eight species of wood; calculated E values based on Dietenberger's equations; Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter; Microflow Combustion Calorimeter; use of ASTM D 5865 and ASTM D 7309 to measure E