- Author
- Robertson, A. F.
- Title
- Fire Research at the National Bureau of Standards.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Publication 475,
- Book or Conf
- National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. 1st Fire Research Correlation Conference. November 8-9, 1956., Washington, DC, 40-45 p., 1957
- Keywords
- fire research | ignition | fire growth | fire spread
- Abstract
- A brief review is presented together with references to work recently accomplished in the field of fire research at the National Bureau of Standards. Included are discussions on ignition phenomena, detection of flame by radiant energy receivers, growth and spread of fires, mechanism of extinguishment by dry chemicals, and transient heat flow calculations for prediction of fire resistance behavior of constructions. Comments are made on further work which appears desirable in this general field.