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The Veterans Administration (VA) has sponsored a project at the Center for Fire Research of the National Bureau of Standards to study smoke control in VA
The literature on polyethylenes has been reviewed with an emphasis on the identification of gaseous products generated under various thermal decomposition
This report presents descriptive data on three hundred manufacturing facilities that are using computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) techniques to machine
Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Mary Mitchell, K Mikkilineni, Stanley Su, H Lam
Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) includes activities for supporting, planning, and controlling the manufacture of products. Our definition of a CIM
The literature on rigid polyurethane foam has been reviewed with an emphasis on the gaseous products generated under various thermal decomposition conditions
A review of the literature was undertaken to ascertain the current knowledge of the nature of the thermal decomposition products generated from ABS and the
This report was prepared for distribution at the First International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, October 7-11, 1985. It contains extended abstracts of
A systematic review is made of engineering data on the major aspects of upholstered furniture flammability: cigarette ignition, small open flame ignition
Sources of data needed for predictive modeling of fire growth by FAST and ASET, two computer codes developed at the Center for Fire Research, are identified for