- Author
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Fleischmann, C. M.
- Title
- Radiant Ignition of Adjacent Upholstered Furniture: A Simple Approach. (Abstract/Presentation)
- Coporate
- Canterbury Univ.
- Report
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NIST SP 998
May 2003
- Book or Conf
- Extended Abstracts and Presentations from the Workshop on Fire Growth and Spread on Objects, March 4-6, 2002, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Peacock, R. D.; Pitts, W. M., Editors,
2003
- Keywords
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fire growth
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fire spread
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upholstered furniture
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radiant ignition
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experiments
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radiation modeling
- Abstract
- This presentation describes the work in progress to predict the ignition of upholstered furniture. The efforts have focused in two major areas: how to best predict the radiation from the initial burning item and given the exposing heat flux, when will the adjacent upholstered furniture item ignite.