- Author
- Butler, C. P.
- Title
- Camp Parks Mass Fires. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Naval Radiological Defense Lab., San Francisco, CA
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
- USNRDL TR-69-A; OCD Work Unit No. 2561A, August 1969, 46 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DAHC20-67-C-0149
- Keywords
- mass fires | fire models | building fires | energy release rate | thermal radiation | carbon monoxide | plywood
- Abstract
- This report summarizes experimental work on the dynamic characteristics of burning buildings, as studied with small plywood models and one full-scale barracks section. Parameters measured include total energy release rate, total thermal radiaiton, and carbon monoxide concentrations at scaled street levels, as well as carbon monoxide concentrations in a model basement. the ratios of total thermal radiation to total energy release rate at maximum burning time are: for a skirted model, 25 percent; for an unskirted model, 30 percent; and for the full-scale barracks section, 8 percent. the logistics for conducting large building burns is described.