- Author
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National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Fire Research and Safety. 3rd Joint Panel Proceedings Conference of the U.S. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR).
- Report
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NBS SP 540; CIB W14/79/47 (USA),
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Fire Research and Safety. 3rd Joint Panel Proceedings Conference of the U.S. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR). March 13-17, 1978,
National Bureau of Standards,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Sherald, M. A., Editors,
729 p.,
1979
- Keywords
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building fires
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conferences
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fire detection
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fire investigations
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fire models
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fire research
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fire retardants
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flame retardants
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human behavior
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smoke
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toxic gases
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toxicity
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natural resources
- Abstract
- The Third Joint Panel Meeting of the United States - Japan Panel on Natural Resources (UJNR), Fire Research and Safety, was held a the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland, from March 13-17, 1978. The meeting consisted of in-depth technical assessions on detection and smoke properties, modeling of fire, and toxicity of fire gas. Progress reports briefly covered human behavior, building systems, and smoke control. This proceedings includes the technical papers presented at the meeting along with the ensuing dicussion and the summary reports prepared by each session chairman. The first meeting of UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety was held in Washington, D.C. from April 7-8, 1976, where the current activities in the Unied States and Japan on fire research and safety were introduced. After this exchane, the following 6 topics were selected for initial cooperation; toxicity, building systems, human behavior, smoke control, detection and smoke properties, and modeling of fire.