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Author
Fleischmann, C. M.
Title
Radiant Ignition of Adjacent Upholstered Furniture: A Simple Approach. (Abstract/Presentation)
Coporate
Canterbury Univ.
Report
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
fire growth | fire spread | upholstered furniture | radiant ignition | experiments | 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.