- Author
- Madrzykowski, D.
- Title
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers' Evaluation of DETACT-QS.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 14th Joint Panel Meeting. Proceedings. May 28-June 3, 1998, ['Tsukuba, Japan', 'Tokyo, Japan'], 65-69 p., 1998
- Keywords
- fire safety | fire protection engineering | evaluation | computer models | scenarios | fire models
- Identifiers
- DETACT-QS; computer model evaluation task group; evaluation scenarios
- Abstract
- The Society of Fire Protection Engineers formed a task group to evaluate the scope, applications and limitations of computer models intended for use in the engineering evaluation and design of fire and life safety measures. The first objective was to identify an evaluation methodology and select a model to use as a test case. The Task Group chose DETACT-QS, a model for predicting thermal detector response, as the first model to undergo evaluation. After examining several approaches to evaluating a computer model, the Task Group decided on following the ASTM Standard Guide for Evaluating the Predictive Capability of Deterministic Fire Models, E-1355. This paper provides an overview of the evaluation process to date.