Citation

Fowell AJ. Fire Technol. 1985; 21(3): 199-212.

Affiliation

National Bureau of Standards, USA

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01039974

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A framework is proposed for assessing hazards associated with the spread of smoke and hot gases from fires in buildings, and the current predictive capabilities for each component of that framework are described. Particular attention is given to the significance of the toxicity of the combustion products of a material in relation to its other fire properties. The prediction of the onset of hazardous conditions in a three room residential arrangement with upholstered furniture as the burning object is presented to illustrate the usefulness of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) smoke transport computer code, a key component of the framework.