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In typical compartment fire scenarios, ratios of cross-vent absolute pressures are close to 1. When such is the case, algorithms are available to predict the
A study was undertaken to evaluate the fire performance of composite materials using the cone calorimeter as the bench-scale method of test simulating the
Betty Mandel, Javier Bernal, Christoph J. Witzgall
The U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories and the National Bureau of Standards investigated the computational feasibility of developing a contour-to-grid
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Reaction gas chromatographymass spectrometry is applied to establish optimal conditions for the synthesis of bi- and tricyclic saturated hydrocarbons. Further
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