- Author
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Deal, S.
- Title
- Technical Reference Guide for FPEtool Version 3.2.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- General Services Administration, Washington, DC
- Report
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NISTIR 5486
August 1994
132 p.
- Distribution
- This report is Superseded by NISTIR 5486-1 (R9600289) ONLY AVAILABLE FROM National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA 02269 Ph: 617/984-7469 ONLY AVAILABLE FROM International Conference of Building Officials, Whittier, CA 90601 Ph: 213/699-0541 ONLY AVAILABLE FROM Australian Fire Protection Assoc. Ltd., Victoria, Australia Ph: 61+3+320-5577
- Keywords
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computer programs; detector response; evacuation models; fire research; fire models; tenability; fire safety engineering; performance evaluation; sprinkler response
- Abstract
- This report is Superseded by NISTIR 5486-1 (R9600289) FPEtool is a collection of computer simulated procedures providing numerical engineering calculations of fire phenomena to the building designer, code enforcer, fire protection engineer and fire-safety related practitioner. Version 3.2 newly incorporates an estimate of smoke conditions developing within a room receiving steady-state smoke leakage from an adjacent space. Estimates of human viability resulting from exposure to developing conditions within the room are calculated based upon the smoke temperature and toxicity. There is no modeling of human behavior. Also new to this release is the estimation (in the FIRE SIMULATOR procedure) of the reduction in fire heat release rate due to sprinkler suppression.