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Author
Babrauskas, V.
Title
Cone Calorimeter.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
Chapter 4
Book or Conf
Heat Release in Fires, Elsevier Applied Science, NY, Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editors, 61-91 p., 1992
Keywords
heat release rate | fire protection engineering | cone calorimeters | air flow | ignition | thickness | smoke measurement | reproducibility
Identifiers
radiant heater; calibration equipment
Abstract
For much of the bench-scale work carried out over the last few years, the Cone Calorimeter has been found by numerous laboratories to be the best tool for heat release rate measurement. It has also been designed to include a number of other measuring functions, including: effective heat of combustion; mass loss rate; ignitability; smoke and soot; and toxic gases.