- Author
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McGuire, J. H.
- Title
- St. Lawrence Burns. Radiometer Measurements.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
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DBR Internal Report No. 153
December 1959
35 p.
- Keywords
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building fires
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combustible materials
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large scale fire tests
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noncombustibles
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residential buildings
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room fires
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noise (sound)
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temperature measurements
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ventilation
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radiometers
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vapor phases
- Identifiers
- occupant survival; smoke and sound measurements; radiant temperature of openings
- Abstract
- Early in 1958 a number of controlled burning experiments were carried out at Aultsville, Ontario, by the Fire Section of the Division of Building Research, National Research Council. The general details of these experiments, which involved the burning of six dwellings and two larger buildings, are described in the first of a series of reports on the St. Lawrence Burns. One of the objects of the tests was to provide information on the spatial separations which should be established between buildings in order to reduoe the likelihood of spread of fire by radiative heat transfer. This report describes the instrumentation of the experiments from this aspect and lists the results obtained.