Experimental studies on minimum heat release rates for flashover with oxygen consumption calorimetry

Architectural Science Review

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-296

  Chow, W K ^a   Gao, Y ^b   Dong, H ^b   Zou, G W ^b   Luo, Z ^b   Meng, L ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calorimetry; Heat realease Minimum heal release rate; Oxygen consumption calorimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042261109     PISSN: 00038628     EISSN: 17589622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2003.9696996     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. BSI, BSISO/TR 15587:1999: Fire Safety Engineering, British Standards Institution, London, UK (1999).
2. Society of Fire Protection Engineers "SFPE engineering guide to performance-based fire protection analysis and design of buildings" Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (2001).
3. Janssens M.L. "An introduction to mathematicalfire modeling' 2nd Edition, Technomic Publishing Co. Inc., Lancaster, USA (2000).
4. th International Symposium, International Association/or Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), 5-9 July 1999, Poitiers, France, International Association for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Curtat M., Editor, p. 195-206 (2000).
5. Chow W.K. and Leung C.W. “Survey on partition walls commonly used in Hong Kong and estimation of the heat release rates during fire” Architectural Science Review, Vol. 44, No. 4, p. 379-390 (2001).
6. Kawagoe K. "Fire behaviour in room" Report No. 27, Building Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan (1958).
7. Thomas P.H., Bullen M.L., Quintiere, G. and McCaffrey, B.J. “Flashover and instabilities in fire behavior” Combustion and Flame, Vol. 38, p. 159-171 (1980).
8. Babrauskas V. “Estimating room flashover potential” Fire Technology, Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 94-103 (1980).
9. Quintiere J.G. and McCaffrey B.J. “The burning of wood and plastic cribs in an enclosure: Vol. 1” NBS1R80-2054, Final Report, Pittsburgh PA, USA, November (1980).
10. Lockwood F.C. and Malalasekera W.M.G. “Fire computation: The ‘flashover’ phenomenon” Twenty-second Symposium (International) on Combustion Gaithersburg MD, USA (1988).
11. Bishop S.R., Holbom P.G., Beard A.N. and Drysdale, “Nonlinear dynamics of flashover on compartment fires” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 1. p. 11-45(1993).
12. Graham T., Makhviladze G. and Roberts J.P. “On the theory of flashover development” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 229-259 (1995).
13. Liang F.M., Chow W.K. and Liu S.D. “Preliminary study on flashover mechanism in compartment fires” Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 87-112(2002).
14. Babrauskas V. and Grayson S.J. “Heat release in fires" Elsevier Applied Science, London and NY (1992).
15. Chow W.K. “Support on carrying out full-scale burning tests for kzraokes" International Journal on Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes, Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 104-112 (2001).
16. Thomas P.H. “Testing products and materials for their contribution to flashover in rooms" Fire and Materials, Vol. 5, p. 103-111 (1981).
17. McCaffrey B.J., Quintiere J.G. and Harkeleroad M.F. “Estimating room temperatures and the likelihood of flashover using fire data correlations" Fire Technology, Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 98-119 (1981).
18. Quintiere J.G. “Growth of fire in building compartments” Fire Standards and Safety, ASTM STP 614, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, p. 131-167 (1976).
19. Drysdale D. “An introduction to fire dynamics" Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons - Chichester (1999).
20. Walton W.D. and Thomas P.H. “Estimating temperatures in compartment fires” Section 2, Chapter 2, TheSFPE Hatidbook of Fire Protection Engineering 1st Edition, NFPASFPE88, Quincy, MA, p. 16-32 (1988).
21. Morgan H.P. “The influence of window flows in the onset of flashover” SFSE/FRS Symposium on Flow Through Openings, p. 1-21, 13 June 1989, Borehamwood, BRE, Garston, UK (1989).
22. ISO 9705. 1993(F), “Fire tests - Full-scale room test for surface products", International Standards Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (1996).