- Author
- Purser, D. A.
- Title
- Assessment of Time to Loss of Tenability Due to Smoke, Irritants, Asphyxiants and Heat in Full-Scale Building Fires: Effects of Suppression and Detection on Survivability.
- Coporate
- Building Research Establishment, Garston, England
- Book or Conf
- Fire Suppression and Detection Research Application Symposium. Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap. Proceedings. Fire Protection Research Foundation. February 24-26, 1999, Orlando, FL, 100-139 p., 1999
- Keywords
- fire suppression | fire detection | fire research | fire safety | fire protection | survivability | tenability limits | smoke | irritants | asphyxia | building fires | evaluation | toxicity | toxic hazards | fire risk | visibility | people movement | fire gases | lethal concentrations | incapacitation | hazard analysis | furniture | fire hazards | smoldering | ventilation | flashover | apartments | residential fires | home fires | smoke detectors | sprinklers | life safety | aircraft compartments | mist
- Identifiers
- decay; toxic and physiological hazards in fires and concentration/time: dose relationships; reported effects of smoke on visibility and behavior; irritant concentrations of common fire gases; lethal exposure doses of irritants contributing to asphyxia and lung damage; Fractional Effective Dose (FED); limiting conditions for tenability caused by heat; life threat analysis for the first six minutes of a furniture fire; early/well ventilated flaming fires; non-flaming/smoldering fires; restricted ventilation (vitiated) flaming fires; ventilation controlled flaming post flashover fires; apartment and house fires: times to alarm and tenability limits; effectiveness of smoke detectors in 98 fires; aircraft cabin spray miust system fires