- Author
- Sundstrom, B. | Kaiser, I.
- Title
- Full Scale Fire Testing of Upholstered Furniture.
- Coporate
- National Testing Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Report
- NORDTEST Project 410-83, 1986, 73 p.
- Keywords
- upholstered furniture
- Abstract
- Upholstered furniture can in many instants be regarded as a fire risk and therefore means to evaluate this risk is required. The fire technical properties of a product can be separated into ignition properties and the burning behavior. The ignition properties can be determined with a small scale test, but the burning behavior must be investigated in large scale. The purpose of this project was to develop and investigate a full scale test procedure for burning behavior of upholstered furniture, to discuss how the measured data could be used and to compare with small scale ignition test results. The products that were tested were chosen in cooperation with the Norwegian fire research laboratory, who also made ignition tests according to British Standard 5852.