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Flammability Testing of Materials Used in Construction, Transport, and Mining
Flammability Testing of Materials used in Construction, Transport, and Mining, Second Edition provides an authoritative guide to current best practice in ensuring fire-safe design. The book begins by discussing the fundamentals of flammability, measurement techniques, and the main types of fire tests for various applications. Building on this foundation, a group of chapters then reviews tests for key materials used in the building, transport, and mining sectors. There are chapters on wood products, external cladding, and sandwich panels as well as the flammability of walls and ceilings linings. Tests for upholstered furniture and mattresses, cables, and electrical appliances are also reviewe...
Fire, Static and Dynamic Tests of Building Structures
This book includes examinations of the role of full-scale buildings in the development of structural design methods and recommendations on improved construction practice and safety of building occupants in the event of fire and explosion.
Tunnel Fire Testing and Modeling
This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses. In particular, the authors describe a transient full-scale fire test (~15 MW), explaining how they designed and performed the experimental activity inside the Morgex North tunnel in Italy. The entire organization of the experiment is described, from preliminary evaluations to the solutions found for management of operational difficulties and safety issues. This fire test allowed the collection of different measurements (temperature, air velocity, smoke composition, pollutant species) useful for validating and improving CFD codes and for testing the real behavior of the tunnel and its safety systems during a diesel oil fire with a significant heat release rate. Finally, the fire dynamics are compared with empirical correlations, CFD simulations, and literature measurements obtained in other similar tunnel fire tests. This book will be of interest to all engineers and public officials who are concerned with the nature, prevention, and management of tunnel fires.
Candidate Wood-base Standard Reference Materials for Fire Testing--red Oak
A need is presented for wood-base materials suitable as Standard Reference Materials (SRM's) for nationwide fire testing. Need is based on increasing trend toward large-scale fire testing and use of non-characterized wood materials indiscriminately as a performance reference for other building materials. Research objectives are outlined and studies needed toward the ultimate goal of recommending a procedural guide for selection and processing of wood-base materials for fire testing to ASTM Subcommittee D07.12 on Fire Performance of Wood and Wood-Base Products. This paper presents results of first study which examined red oak as a candidate material from standpoint of present usage, forest resource, growth variability, and fire performance variability in the 8-foot tunnel furnace. The effort toward red oak as an SRM is abandoned primarily due to anticipated decreased usage. A recommendation is made that a reconstituted wood product be investigated as a potential SRM and the 8-foot furnace (ASTM E 286) be used as the reference standard test method for its evaluation. (Author)
