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Preliminary evaluation of the flammability of native and ornamental plants with the cone calorimeter
| Author: |
White, R.H.; Weise, D.R.; Frommer, S. |
| Date: |
1996 |
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In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fire Safety. Sissionville, WV: Product Safety Corporation |
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http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf1996/white96c.pdf
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| Abstract: |
Standard test methods determine the relative fire performance of building materials. In an attempt to improve the information on plants, we reviewed the test methods of building materials. A recent development in the testing of building materials is the determination of the heat release rate of the material when subjected to a known fire exposure. The test method that currently is most accepted for measuring heat release rate is the cone calorimeter, which uses oxygen consumption to obtain the heat release (Babrauskas 1984), and is an ASTM (1994) and ISO (1993) standard test method. This paper is a progress report on our use of the cone calorimeter to evaluate the flammability of native and ornamental plants. These cone calorimeter tests are part of a larger project in which we propose to determine how well these calorimeter test results relate to tests involving entire shrubs (minus roots). |
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