- Author
- Hoglander, K. | Sundstrom, B.
- Title
- Design Fires for Preflashover Fires: Characteristic Heat Release Rates of Building Contents.
- Coporate
- Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Report
- SP REPORT 1997:36, 1997, 45 p.
- Keywords
- building materials | heat release rate | upholstered furniture | linings | floor coverings | cables | fire protection engineering | cable trays | curtains | ignition
- Identifiers
- design fires; surface linings; fire technology
- Abstract
- When performing a risk analysis the selection of a correct design fire is a key element. This report seeks to improve the process of defining design fires by providing input of the characteristic burning behavior of various products, for example furniture and linings. The input is based on direct test data, generic properties of products or satistical information of the burning behavior of groups of products. The approach is to determine characteristic heat release rates (HRR) for groups of products in isolation and then put them together in a design fire that is adapted to the actual case under study. Upholstered furniture, surface linings, floor coverings, cables and some other product groups are specially studied in this work.