- Author
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Peacock, R. D.
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Averill, J. D.
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Bukowski, R. W.
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Reneke, P. A.
- Title
- Home Smoke Alarm Project, Manufactured Home Tests. Report of Test FR 4016.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Report of Test FR 4016,
November 2003,
1-4 p.
- Keywords
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smoke detectors
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manufactured housing
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large scale fire tests
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experiments
- Identifiers
- activation time for non-modified smoke alarms, heat alarms and sprinklers
- Abstract
- This Report of Test documents a series of full scale tests conducted as part of research into the performance of smoke alarms. The twenty seven experiments conducted as part of this test series were performed in a manufactured home. Another series of tests, conducted in a two-story house, consisted of a total of nine experiments with instrumentation similar to those included in this report and is reported in NIST Report of Test 4017 , also available on this web site. The data collected is presented without analysis or interpretation in order to provide access to the data by interested parties. The overall purpose of the project is to determine how different types of fire alarms can respond to threatening residential fire settings in order to permit occupant egress. Full-scale tests of current smoke, heat, and carbon monoxide alarms in actual homes with appropriate contents as fuels provide a base of data to evaluate the performance of modern residential alarm technologies. Fire scenarios (including ignition source, first item ignited, and room of fire origin) were selected based upon a statistical analysis of available fire loss data. Selected fires include a mattress fire in a bedroom, upholstered chair fire in a living area, and a cooking oil fire in a kitchen.