- Author
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Gann, R. G.
- Title
- Use of Combustion Effluent Data in Tenability Assessment.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Hazards of Combustion Products: Toxicity, Opacity, Corrosivity and Heat Release. Proceedings. November 10-11, 2008,
Interscience Communications, London, England,
London, England,
Babruaskas, V.; Gann, R. G.; Grayson, S., Editors,
161-169 p.,
2008
- Keywords
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combustion products
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fire hazards
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toxicity
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corrosivity
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heat release
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tenability limits
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fire hazard assessment
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life safety
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toxicants
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smoke
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construction
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fire hazard
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risk assessment
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toxic hazards
- Identifiers
- effects of life safety of airborne toxicants, visible smoke and heat; characterizing the fire performance of construction and furnishing products; implications for product characterization; matrix for appraising the toxic fire hazard of products
- Abstract
- Typical prescriptive and performance-based assessments of life safety in building tires do not explicitly consider the contributions of the toxic potency of combustion gases. smoke obscuration, or the thermal and radiative environment. This paper characterizes two approaches (one rigorous and one simplified) to fire hazard assessment that include the effects on life safety of airborne toxicants, visible smoke. and heat and explores the implications of such methodologies for characterizing the tire performance of construction and furnishing products