Citation

Babrauskas V, Williamson RB. Fire Technol. 1978; 14(3): 226-238.

Affiliation

University of California, Berkeley; Center for Fire Research, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01983057

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A study of errors associated with temperature measurement in fire endurance test furnaces has shown that conventionally used thermocouples are subject to large time constant errors in the first 20 minutes of a standard test.