- Title
- Potential Heat of Materials in Building Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Technical News Bulletin (National Bureau of Standards), Vol. 44, No. 11, 184-187, November 1960
- Keywords
- building fires | potential heat
- Abstract
- A differential bomb calorimetric procedure for measuring quantitatively the actual potential heat (in Btu per unit weight, volume or area) of materials in building fires has been developed by the Bureau, and applied to a wide variety of materials. The method, a modification of a recent standard of the French government, resulted from a study conducted by J. J. Lofts, D. Gross, and A. F. Robertson of the Fire Research Section. The findings show that the method provides a useful tool for quantitative evaluation of the potential heat contribution of building elements when subjected to fire.