- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Upholstered Furniture Heat Release Rates: Measurements and Estimation.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 1, 9-32, January/February 1983
- Keywords
- upholstered furniture | heat release rate | oxygen consumption | burning rate | furniture calorimeters
- Abstract
- A new instrument, termed a furniture calorimeter, has been constructed and placed into operation for measuring furniture heat release rates based on oxygen consumption. Using the furniture calorimeter, burning rate information has been obtained on a series of 13 chairs, loveseats, and sofas, most of them specially built to permit direct comparisons of construction features.