- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Room Fire Temperature Computations.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NFPA FPH 1686
- Book or Conf
- Fire Protection Handbook. 16th Edition. Section 21. Chapter 5, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, Cote, A. E. and Linville, J. L., Editors, 21/31-35 p., 1986
- Keywords
- room fires | temperature | computation | heat release rate | flashover | cribs | wood | plastics | furniture
- Abstract
- For many fire engineering and design purposes it is desirable to be able to compute the temperature of a fire in a room. A major application, for instance, is to predict whether flashover can occur in a given room with a given fuel configuraion. This can be viewed as a temperature prediction problem, since flashover is normally considered to occur when the temperature reaches 600 deg C.