- Author
- National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Researches in Smoke Properties in Japan. 3rd Joint Panel Proceedings Conference of the U.S. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR).
- Coporate
- Japanese Association of Fire Science and Engineering
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS SP 540,
- 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, 54-101 p., 1979
- Keywords
- smoke
- Abstract
- The countermeasures to smoke produced in fires of buildings are very important for the safety of people. An effective design for fire safety is required to establish the reasonable countermeasures based on the knowledge of characteristic of smoke released. There may be two categories for countermeasures of smoke in fires. That is, one is to control the generation of smoke and the other is to control the flow of smoke released in buildings. The methods of the study of the former subject are essentially different from those of the latter. The cooperative studies between the two categories have been carried out for many years by fire research people. The Committee of Japan Association of Fire Science and Engineering involves a subcommittee which studies on smoke and toxic gas load relating to the countermeasures to smoke in fires. Information on mechanism of generation, property and quantity of smoke from various materials in fires have been exchanged and the fundamental studies on characteristic of smoke have been studied for many years at the subcommittee. The smoke behavior in compartment fires have also been studied. This report is the summary of some main reports which have been discussed at the subcommittee on mechanism and generation of smoke from materials and smoke generation in compartment for the contribution to the 3rd Panel Meeting UJNR Panel on Fire Research which involves Technical Session on "smoke property and detector".