- Author
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McGuire, J. H.
- Title
- St. Lawrence Burns. Resistance Thermometer Measurements.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
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DBR Internal Report No. 155
December 1959
24 p.
- Keywords
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building fires
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large scale fire tests
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measurement
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residential buildings
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room fires
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schools
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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, 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. This report is concerned with resistance wire thermometer measurements made by the British Joint Fire Research Organization to provide information on the growth of the heat content of the gases in a burning enclosure. Measurement of the resistance of a wire gives its mean temperature, to a close approximation, and if the wire is thin is a measure of the mean temperature of the gases surrounding the length of the wire. The heat content of the gases can then be estimated by postulating the form of the temperature distribution along the length of the wire.