A study of non-flashover and flashover fires in a full-scale multi-room building

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-219

  Luo, Mingchun ^a   Beck, V ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLASHOVER FIRES; FULL-SCALE MULTIROOM BUILDING; NON-FLASHOVER FIRES;

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLASHOVER; GAS DYNAMICS; MODELS;

FLAMMABILITY;

EID: 0030114247     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-7112(96)00026-4     Document Type: Article

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