- Author
- Tewarson, A.
- Title
- Fire Environment in Partially Vented Automobile Crash Fires.
- Coporate
- FM Global, Norwood, MA
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Eighth (8th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 18-23, 2005, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Beijing, China, Gottuk, D. T.; Lattimer, B. Y., Editors, 1205-1216 p., 2005
- Keywords
- compartment fires | automobile fires | crash fires | transportation | flashover | heat release rate | test fires | fire plumes | equations | enclosures | fire growth | smoke | hydrogen cyanide | carbon monoxide | carbon dioxide | ventilation
- Identifiers
- automobile crash fires; fire environment; untenable/flashover conditions; release rates of heat and fire products; vehicle burn test under the Fire Products Collector; six models were used; times to untenable/flashover conditions and concentrations of products just before in the passenger compartment; times to untenable/flashover conditions and concentrations and release rates of heat and products in the fire plume; front crashed vehicles, fires started in the engine compartment; rear crashed vehicles, fires started under the vehicle in the rear; calculated and measured concentration ratios of HCN to CO in the ISO 9705 Room