Acquisition, analysis, and reporting of fire plume data for fire safety engineering

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 195-206

  Sheppard, David ^a   Meacham, Brian J ^b  

^a UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

^b Society of Fire Protection Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire model evaluation; Fire plume correlation; Fire test data; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CEILINGS; ENGINEERS; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRES; THERMAL PLUMES;

ENGINEERING ANALYSIS; FIRE MODEL EVALUATIONS; FIRE PLUME CORRELATIONS; FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING; FIRE TEST DATUM; PREDICTION INTERVAL; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY AND VARIABILITY;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 1642613994     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.6-195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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