- Author
- Gross, D.
- Title
- Measurement and Correlation of Fire Growth in a Room.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Armstrong Cork Company. Full-Scale Fire Tests Symposium. November 11-12, 1974, Lancaster, PA, 77-87 p., 1974
- Keywords
- large scale fire tests | room fires | fire growth | corner tests | fire tests | interior finishes | flame spread
- Abstract
- Evaluation of fire growth in a room requires characterizationof the source fire, defining a measure of full fie involvement, and correlation in terms of small-scale laboratory tests. A series of 20 room-corner tests was performed using a wood-crib ignition source and selected combinations of interior-finish materials on wall and ceiling surfaces. The upper room-gas temperature was taken as a measure of fire-growth level and potential involvement of all combustible contents. Comparisons are presented between results of the full-scale tests and available laboratory tests on the interior-finish materials. Supplementary approaches involving analytical and reduced-scale modeling are also discussed.