- Author
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Nowlen, S. P.
- Title
- Survivor's Guide for Users of the Baseline Validation Test Data. Revision 1.
- Coporate
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
- Report
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Revision 1
February 1999
38 p.
- Distribution
- For more information contact: Steve Nowlen, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Mail Stop 0748, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0748 USA. Telephone: 505-845-9850, Fax: 505-844-3321, Email: [email protected]
- Keywords
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databases
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validation
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fire tests
- Abstract
- The Baseline Validation Test Series was conducted in the fall of 1985 at Factory Mutual Research Corp. (FMRC) facilities under Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) direction and under U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) sponsorship. For basic information on the test objectives, the construction and layout of the test enclosure, the placement and nature of the test instrumentation, the various fire sources used in testing, and the actual test matrix refer to NUREG/CR-4681. This report represents the single most general reference currently available for this test series. Additional information specific to the last five tests (tests 21-25) is also available in NUREG/CR-4527, Volume 2. Tests 21-25 were all tests performed as a part of the Cabinet Fire Test Program and involve fires (either gas burners or cable fires) within an electrical panel inside the test enclosure. While nominally a part of the cabinet testing program, full data files for these tests are aIso included in this data release. For reference, viewable versions of these two reports are provided along with the test data files themselves on the public release CD-ROM. It is not the purpose of this document to repeat the information from the previously published reports. Rather, the purpose of this document is to identify and discuss issues encountered by SNL and other users in accessing and using the test data. These generally relate to issues impacting the integrity, retrieval, and reliability of the gathered data. We refer to this as the "survivors guide" because it provides information not available in published references that is critical to both retrieving and understanding the test data. Any comments regarding this guide are welcomed and we do anticipate periodic updates to reflect the experiences of all users. This version represents the first update to the original Survivor's Guide prepare in June 1991.