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Smoke Emission and Burning Rates for Urban Structures

January 1, 1991
Author(s)
Nelson P. Bryner, George W. Mulholland
Cribs, ordered arrays of sticks, were burned to mimic post-nuclear building fires. As the packing density of the cribs was increased to simulate blast damage, the smoke yield increased and the smoke changed from strongly light absorbing to whitish in color

Laboratory Studies of Smoke Properties at NIST Past, Present, and Future

November 1, 1990
Author(s)
George W. Mulholland, Nelson P. Bryner
Burn facilities have been developed at NIST to measure the yield and optical properties of smoke at two fire scales. The small scale apparatus is used for burning samples about 10 cm in diameter (soup bowl size) and an intermediate scale apparatus is used