- Author
- Apte, V. | Griffin, G. J. | Paroz, B. W. | Bicknell, A. D.
- Title
- Fire Behavior of Rendered Straw Bales.
- Coporate
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia
- Journal
- Fire and Materials, Vol. 32, No. 5, 259-279, August/September 2008
- Keywords
- straw | fire behavior | smoldering combustion | mathematical models | fire safety | heat flux | construction | rural population | thermocouples | equations | mass balance | oxygen | thermogravimetric analysis | kinetics | material properties | temperature profiles | mass transfer
- Identifiers
- straw bales; combustion behavior of compacted, rendered straw bales exposed to two radiant heat flux regimes; thermocouple locations for the earth- and lime-rendered straw bales; calculated reaction parameters for straw; reaction/process parameters used in the model; straw bales rendered with either a lime-based material or an earth-based material