Ohlemiller, T.
and McLane, R.
(2017),
Mini-Matt Flammability and Its Relation to Full-Scale Mattress Flammability, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
(Accessed November 30, 2025)
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Mini-Matt Flammability and Its Relation to Full-Scale Mattress Flammability
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Mini-mattresses of a size used for commercial display, were subjected to a pair of NIST-developed gas burners and the resulting heat release behavior was recorded. Peak heat release rate and time to peak for five sample designs were compared to the full-scale bed fire behavior (based on burning bed clothes). Design-independent and design-dependent correlations between the mini-matts and full-scale were sought. The more useful of these, a design-independent correlation, was found but it is coarse due to materials and design-induced scatter in the results.Citation
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Keywords
beds, fire research, flammability, heat release rate, mattresses, scaling correlations
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Created February 19, 2017