Fire research

J. J. Brenden, Rate of Heat Releasefrom Wood-base BuildingMaterials Exposed to Fire, Research Paper PPL230, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Eorest Service, Eorest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wise., 1974. 

Burning Rate - Defined as the rate (in millimeters per minute) at which a pool of liquid decreases as the liquid bums. Details of measurements are provided by D. S. Burgess, A. Strasser, and J. Grumer, Diffusive Burning of Liquid Fuels in Open Trays, Fire Research Abstracts and Reviews, 3, 177 (1961). 

Mmkley, P.L., 1975, Work by the Fire Research Station on the Control of Smoke in Covered Shopping Centers, Proceedings of the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) W14/168/76 (UK) 24p., September. 

Rogowski, Z. W. 1978. Manual for Testing Flame Arresters. Fire Research Station, Building Research Establishment, Borehamwood, Herts., England, UK. 

It has been shown by Palmer at the Fire Research Station (FRS) that a crucial variable governing the performance of a flame arrester is the flame speed incident on the arrester. The critical flame speed (minimum speed at which the flame can pass through the arrester) is discussed by Phillips and Pritchard (1986), drawing largely on the FRS work on propane-air mixtures at atmospheric pressure. A simple model based on heat removal from the flame yields the following relation for deflagration flame arresters ... 

Hasegawa, K., and K. Sato 1987. Experimental investigation of unconfined vapor cloud explosions and hydrocarbons. Technical Memorandum No. 16, Fire Research Institute, Tokyo. 

Building Research Establishment, Fire Research Station. 

Lawson DF, Cheng TC (1978) Org Coatings Plast Chem 38 694 Lawson DF, Cheng TC (1977/78) Fire Research 1 223 Taylor JP, Allcock HR (1999) ACS Polym Prep 40 910... 

Methanol-acetic anhydride reaction Fire Research Station Site Singh (1993)... 

Most fires involve the combustion of polymeric materials. Despite the involvement of polymers in fires, there have been no books on current research topics in this area of fire research in some years. Given the importance of fire and polymers as a social issue and the complexity and interest in the relevant basic science, Eli Pearce of Polytechnic University of New York and I cochaired a one-week symposium on fire and polymers. It was the first major symposium held on fire and polymers at an American Chemical Society National Meeting in about five years. 

This book is based on that symposium. It is divided into five sections, designed to capture a representative segment of the latest research on fire and polymers. The book also includes some key contributions not presented at the symposium, all edited and organized for this book. The contributors are major figures in fire research, drawn from not only the United States but also Europe and Israel. 

I gratefully acknowledge the work of Eli Pearce, dean of Arts and Sciences and director of the Polymer Research Institute, Polytechnic University of New York Geoffrey N. Richards, director of the Wood Chemistry Laboratory, University of Montana Barbara Levin of the National Center for Fire Research, NIST Stanley Kaufman of Bell Laboratories and Ronald L. Markezich of the Technology Center, Occidental Chemical Corporation. Their solicitation of papers was... 

Center for Fire Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology,... 

Babrauskas, V., Toxic Hazard from Fires a Simple Assessment Method, Proceedings of conference on "Fire Control the Heat. Reduce the Hazard. Queen Mary College Fire and Materials Centre and Fire Research Station, London, England, 1988, p 1-10. 

This project was financially supported by the Swedish Fire Research Board and the National Testing Institute. 

Fardell P. et al. Fire Research Station, BRE, United Kingdom, Private communication. 

The authors are Indebted to Ake Isaksson - now Sunds Deflbrator for skillful technical assistance, to the Swedish Council for Applied Research and to the Swedish Fire Research Board for support of this work. 

Thomas, P. H. Self-Heating of Fihre Insulating Board. Fire Research Stn, Note 306 Boreham Wood, Herts., UR, 1957. 

Fire Research Stn, Note 266 Boreham Wood, Herts., UK. 

Thomas P. H., Int. Conf. FIRE control the Head -Reduce the Hazard Fire Research Station, October 24-25, 1988, London, UK, paper 1. 

Parker, W. J., "An Assessment of Correlations Between Laboratory and Full-Scale Experiments for the FA A Aircraft Fire Safety Program, Part 3 ASTM E 84", NBSIR 82-2564, Center for Fire Research, Washington DC, August... 

Kulkarni, A. K., Fisher, S., "A Model for Upward Flame Spread on Vertical Wall", National Bureau of Standards, Center for Fire Research, Gaithersburg, 1988. 

Leadership in US fire research programs R. Long, J. Lyons... 

Rothermel, R.C., Modeling fire behavior, in 1st International Conference on Forest Fire Research, Coimbra, Portugal, November 1990. 

Thomas, P.H. and Heselden, A.J.M., Fully-developed fires in single compartment, a co-operative research programme of the Conseil International du Batiment, Fire Research Note 923, Joint Fire Research Organization, Borehamwood, UK, 1972. 

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