- Author
- Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Methods of Designing and Evaluating Facilities for Fire Safety.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBSIR 85-3118
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. 7th Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety. October 24-28, 1983, Gaithersburg, MD, 17-29 p., ['1983', '1985']
- Keywords
- fire safety
- Abstract
- One paper at the 1982 UJNR Meeting on Fire Research and Safety presented a broad, long-term framework for research and development with a view toward the rational design and evaluation of fire safety. The present paper will outline some of the ongoing types of activities which are consistent with that framework, and which are being carried out at the National Bureau of Standards, Center for Fire Research, and at other fire research institutions throughout the world. The focus of attention will be on recent fire-safety-practitioner-oriented research activities which focus attention on the development of design and evaluation methods of fire safety. The general and long-term goal of such activities is to build on past progress in the fire sciences and to develop a rational, broad-based technology of fire safety. This technology would be built on the more basic fire research products of CFR and similar institutions. Another paper presented at this meeting provides a report on the overall status of this emerging technology for fire safety.