- Author
- Janssens, M. L.
- Title
- Development of FDMS Tools to Generate Data for Fire Safety Engineering and Modeling. (Abstract/Presentation)
- Coporate
- North Carolina Univ., Charlotte
- 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 | safety engineering | fire safety | ignition | flame spread | heat release rate
- Abstract
- The main limitation of current compartment fire models is that they generally are not capable of predicting fire growth, but are only suitable to calculate the consequences of a user-specified fire. An extensive database of fire curves would alleviate this problem, but the development of an exhaustive database of fire curves is not feasible. A more practical approach involves the use of correlations and sub-models, so that fire curves can be constructed for a variety of geometries and configurations on the basis of material properties from small-scale fire test data. Methods have been developed to predict the heat release rate vs. time of objects that are common in residences such as chairs and TV sets; and large objects such as automobiles and railcars. However, the most common geometry for which predictive sub-models have been developed is the room/corner test. Standard room/corner test protocols have been developed domestically (e.g., NFPA 265 and NFPA 286) as well as internationally (ISO 9705).