- Author
- Robertson, A. F.
- Title
- Fire Test Methods: Classification and Application.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- STP 816,
- Book or Conf
- American Society for Testing and Materials. Behavior of Polymeric Materials in Fire. 1983., American Society for Testing and Material, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Schaffer, E. L., Editors, 3-12 p., 1983
- Keywords
- fire tests | prototypes | fire safety | materials tests | models
- Identifiers
- fire test methods; modeling; property tests; system tests; prototype fires
- Abstract
- It is shown that traditional fire test methods have in many cases represented physical models or real prototye fires. The results of applying them serve in a significant way to predict the behavior of a prototype system when exposed to fire.