Citation

Babrauskas V, Walton WD. Fire Safety J. 1986; 11(3): 181-192.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The technology for measuring uphostered furniture heat release rates was established with the development of the furniture calorimeter. Analysis of a large number of tests in the furniture calorimeter has now demonstrated that for most specimens a good approximation to the rate of heat release as a function of time may take the form of a triangle. Methods of generating such curves, suitable for fire protection engineering hazard assessment purposes, have been developed.