- Author
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Nelson, H. E.
- Title
- Engineering Analysis of Fire Development in the Hospice of Southern Michigan, December 15, 1985.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 10th Joint Panel Meeting. June 9-10, 1988, Tsukuba, Japan, 135-136 pp, 1988 AND International Association for Fire Safety Science. Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium. June 13-17, 1988, TH9112.F5626 1989, Tokyo, Japan, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York, Wakamatsu, T., Hasemi, Y., Sekizawa, A., Seeger, P. G., Pagni, P. J. and Grant, C. E. Editor(s), 927-938 pp, 1989,
1989
- Keywords
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hospitals
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patients
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death
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fire safety
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safety engineering
- Abstract
- Eight patients died in this fire. This fire was analyzed using quantitative engineering tools to reconstruct the description of the conditions that occurred in the fire and to asses their usefulness in fire safety engineering efforts. An effort was made to use the least sophisticated approach that would give answers reasonably consistent with the evidence from the fire. In general, values used for both the thermophysical and combustion properties of materials are generic values or from tests of similar materials or items. All pertinent data and information available were used in the analysis. Even so, significant assumptions were involved in the calculation.