- Author
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Geiman, J. A.
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Gottuk, D. T.
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Milke, J. A.
- Title
- Evaluation of Smoke Detector Response Estimation Methods: Optical Density, Temperature Rise, and Velocity at Alarm.
- Coporate
- Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD
Maryland Univ., College Park
- Journal
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Journal of Fire Protection Engineering,
Vol. 16,
No. 4,
251-268,
November 2006
- Keywords
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smoke detectors
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detector response
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evaluation
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optical density
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temperature rise
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velocity
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threshold detectors (dosimeters)
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uncertainty
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large scale fire tests
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methodology
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combustion
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ventilation
- Identifiers
- alarm thresholds; temperature approximation; critical velocity; Navy Tests (Hughes Associates, Inc. and the Naval Research Laboratory conducted the first series of tests); Kemano Tests (National Research Council of Canada (NRC) recently conducted full-scale fire detection experiments in residential dwellings in Kemano, British Columbia)