- Author
- National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Radiant Panel Test for Flame Spread Determines Flammability of Building Materials.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Technical News Bulletin (National Bureau of Standards), Vol. 39, No. 10, 142-144, October 1955
- Keywords
- radiant panel test method | quality control
- Abstract
- A method for measuring the rate at which flames spread along the surfaces of various materials has been developed by the Bureau's fire protection laboratory. This convenient and reproducible method for rating building materials - especially those used for internal finishing - will provide both manufactures and builders with design data to be used for reducing fire hazards in buildings. Developed by Daniel Gross, J. J. Loftus and A. F. Robertson, the method is simple and versatile, the equipment compact and relatively inexpensive. Both the equipment and the method can be duplicated quite easily by manufacturers for quality control testing and by laboratories for evaluating flammability of materials.