- Author
- Emmons, H. W.
- Title
- Fire Spread Research in the United States.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- 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, 95-108 p., ['1983', '1985']
- Keywords
- fire spread
- Abstract
- The quantitative understanding of the rate of fire spread under a wide variety of circumstances of geometry, materials, external radiation, and ambient atmospheric vitiation is necessary for the successful development of predictive fire models. The energy feedback by radiation, gas convection, and solid conduction reacting with the pyrolysis, ignition and combustion of the material is the well established mechanism of fire spread in all cases. The complexity of these processes has prevented generally valid theoretical solutions or emperical data correlations.