The size and mass distribution of firebrands collected from ignited building components exposed to wind

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2479-2485

  Suzuki, Sayaka ^a   Manzello, Samuel L ^a   Hayashi, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Firebrands; WUI fires

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; FIREBRANDS; FULL-SCALE STRUCTURES; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; MASS DISTRIBUTION; POST-FIRE; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE; WIND SPEED;

IGNITION;

BUILDING COMPONENTS;

EID: 84872028648     PISSN: 15407489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2012.06.061     Document Type: Article

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