Replacing international temperature-time curves with BFD curve

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 321-327

  Barnett, C R ^a  

^a Macdonald Barnett Partners Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fire compartment temperature; Fire engineering; Fire modelling; Structural fire engineering design

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAFETY FACTOR; STANDARDS;

FIRE COMPARTMENT TEMPERATURE; FIRE ENGINEERING; FIRE MODELING; STRUCTURAL FIRE ENGINEERING DESIGN;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 34248355989     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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