- Author
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Sundstrom, B. E.
- Title
- Furniture Resction to Fire: Test Methods and Models.
- Coporate
- Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Report
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SP REPORT 1993:10
1993
11 p.
- Book or Conf
- Interscience Communications Ltd. European Conference on Furniture Flammability (EUCOFF'92), 3rd. November 1992,
Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England,
Brussels,
['1992', '1993']
- Keywords
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upholstered furniture
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test methods
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fire models
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cone calorimeters
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fire tests
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furniture calorimeters
- Abstract
- Reaction to fire test methods for upholstered furniture burning behavior is discussed. A philosophy employing small and large scale testing to predict the fire conditions in a design scenario is presented. The fire calorimeters are the only tests that produces data directly useful for prediction of fire conditions. The furniture calorimeter gives quantitative data of heat release rate, smoke and toxic gas species for a full sized furniture directly useful for model input. However, being large scale it is a relatively expensive test. The cone calorimeter is a bench scale test and thus cheaper. The cone data has to be interpreted into the burning behavior of full sized items. various models for that purpose are discussed. An important problem is to predict the influence of furniture design. More work is needed on prediction of smoke and toxic gas species.