Characterisation of Dalmarnock fire Test One

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1334-1343

  Abecassis Empis, C ^a   Reszka, P ^a   Steinhaus, T ^a   Cowlard, A ^a   Biteau, H ^a   Welch, S ^a   Rein, G ^a   Torero, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dalmarnock; Fire; Large scale tests

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FIRE PROTECTION; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); FLAMMABILITY TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS; TALL BUILDINGS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; CHARACTERISATION; ELSEVIER (CO); FIRE EXPERIMENTS; FIRE MODELLING; FIRE TESTING; HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS; MAJOR EVENTS; MONITORING SENSORS; POST-FLASHOVER; SENSOR INFORMATIONS; VENTILATION MANAGEMENT;

TESTING;

EID: 45849124258     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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