- Author
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Shorter, G. W.
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McGuire, J. H.
- Title
- St. Lawrence Burns. Summary Report.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
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DBR Internal Report No. 158
December 1959
36 p.
- Keywords
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building fires
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carbon monoxide
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combustible materials
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compartment fires
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doors
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large scale fire tests
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oxygen
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residential buildings
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radiation
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room fires
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smoke
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smoke density
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schools
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timber
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visibility
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wood
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windows
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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
- When it became known that the St. Lawrence Power Project would result in the flooding of large areas, including a number of small towns on the Canadian side of the river, it was realized that this would provide a unique opportunity to carry out full scale experiments on the buildings which for various reasons were not to be moved away. Accordingly, arrangements were made with the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario to have a number of these buildings made available to the Division of Building Research, National Research Council of Canada, for experimental fires. In designing the experiments the Division invited the co-operation of, the British Joint Fire Research Organization and the Division of Building Technology, U.S. National Bureau of Standards. The JFRO expressed particular interest in the development of fire in large compartments and offered to assist in instrumenting the tests, sending a member of the staff to Canada to participate in the experiments. Pressure of work in the U.S. organization precluded such an active share in the work, but a member of the staff witnessed the experiments. The main object of the operation was to study the development of fire in dwellings with regard to the limiting time of survival of the occupants and to the likelihood of spread of fire to neighboring buildings. The JFRO were particularly interested in studying fires in large compartments with reference to the initial growth of the heat content of the gases and to the ventilation rates.