Burning rate wood cribs

Figure 9.18 Burning rate correlation for wood cribs according to Heskestad [23] with student data [24]...

Figure 11.11 Compartment thermal effect on burning rate for wood cribs and pool fire...

Quintiere, J. G. and McCaffrey, B. J., The Burning Rate of Wood and Plastic Cribs in an Enclosure, Vol. 1, NBSIR 80-2054, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1980. 

For simulation, a rectangular compartment of 80 m long, 10m wide, 8 m high with opening at one end is considered. A section of the compartment is shown in Fig. 5 (half section of a symmetric compartment is shown). As the fire source a burning wood cribs is considered for this study of fire environment inside the compartment. The volume of the fire source is taken to be 9 m (3 m X 3 m X 1 m). The source is located 24 m from open end of the compartment, i.e. left portal. The heat release rate curve, as shown in Fig. 6 is taken from experimental results measured by Ingason et al. (1994) [19] on a wood crib fire imder natural ventilation condition as mentioned therein. 

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