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Estimating room temperatures and the likelihood of flashover using fire test data correlations
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In this article, a simple procedure is presented for estimating room temperature and the likelihood of the occurrence of flashover in an enclosure and the engineer can use the results for quantitative estimations of the effects of building design and fire load on the tendency for flashover as defined by a temperature limit.Abstract:
A simple procedure is presented for estimating room temperature and the likelihood of the occurrence of flashover in an enclosure. The engineer can use the results for quantitative estimations of the effects of building design and fire load, on the tendency for flashover as defined by a temperature limit.read more
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Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials
Adrian P. Mouritz,A.G. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model for modeling composites in fire and showed that composites can resist fire under load and post-fire properties of laminates under load.
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Scaling applications in fire research
TL;DR: The principles for scaling fire phenomena from the dimensionless groups derived from the governing differential equations are examined in this paper, and a review of the literature shows examples of where correlations have been successfully developed for a wide range of fire phenomena in terms of the significant dimensionless group.
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Transient plane source (TPS) technique for measuring thermal transport properties of building materials
Torgrim Log,S. E. Gustafsson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the transient plane source (TPS) technique has been used for measurements of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity for a series of building materials ranging from thermally insulating materials (extruded polystyrene and PMMA) to good thermal conductors (stainless steel and aluminium).
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Testing Products and Materials for Their Contribution to Flashover in Rooms
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that the thermal feedback that controls the supply of gaseous fuel from a given area of combustibles may be generally less important than that which controls the extension of the area, although eigher can cause the rapid transition of flashover in the absence of the other.
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Defining flashover for fire hazard calculations
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of techniques for predicting the most common of these criteria, the onset of flashover, is presented, along with a comparison of available calculational procedures ranging from simple correlations to computer-based fire models that can be used to estimate flashover.
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Heat-transfer measurements in short-duration hypersonic facilities
D. L. Schultz,T. V. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the first of several AGARDographs was used to deal with instrumentation techniques used in hypersonic short-duration facilities and with related topics, and a detailed analysis of the errors in the values of heat-transfer rate deduced from the observations was given.
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Fire Induced Gas Flow in an Enclosure
TL;DR: In this article, the gas flow induced by a small fire in a large room is considered, where the fire plume acts as a pump and the window opening as a throttle, and generalizations of Kawagoe's expressions for the window air flow and height of the neutral plane are developed.
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Flashover and instabilities in fire behavior
TL;DR: In this article, a quasi-steady approach is used to explain the growth of fires in enclosures. But the authors do not consider the effect of thermal radiative feedback from the enclosure.