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A series of tests was conducted in five instrumented chimneys to study the intensity and duration of chimney fires due to the ignition and burning of...
This report was prepared for distribution at the 7th Annual Conference on Fire Research, August 23-25, 1983. It contains extended abstracts of grants and...
This report describes the results of an analysis of electrical fire cases by the Center for Fire Research, National Bureau of Standards for the Consumer Product...
Some refinements have been made on a multi-room fire sread model. The primary improvements are: (a) that a model on excess fuel burning in arbitrary room has...
The Fire Safety Evaluation System Cost Minimizer (FSESCM) computer program integrates engineering and economic considerations with a linear programming...
This paper is a second report on an ongoing project at NBS to investigate the use of elevators as a means of fire escape for the handicapped. The use of...
We have examined the concept of zone modeling as it has been applied to fire problems. The existing models which embody the zone concept are compared in order...