- Author
- Williamson, R. B. | Fisher, F. L.
- Title
- Test Methods and Standards.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Book or Conf
- International Conference on Flammability. INTERFLAM '82. Conference Workbook. March 30, 1982-April 1, 1982, Guildford, England, 192-195 p., 1982
- Keywords
- small scale fire tests
- Abstract
- The inability of small scale fire test methods to predict the fire growth potential of building materials in their end-use configuration, particularly plastic products, has led to an interest in the use of full scale room fire tests for this purpose. The principal small scale, or laboratory scale, fire tests for fire growth in the United States are the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E84 and E162. These tests have simplistic data reduction schemes which can mask much of the true test specimen performance.