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Normalized heat load: A key parameter in fire safety design
Author(s) -
Harmathy T. Z.,
Mehaffey J. R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.810060108
Subject(s) - enclosure , fire resistance , fire safety , environmental science , key (lock) , poison control , engineering , structural engineering , computer science , materials science , civil engineering , computer security , composite material , environmental health , medicine , telecommunications
It is demonstrated that he normalized heat load is a suitable parameter for ranking various enclosure fires on a ‘potential for destruction’ scale. This parameter is convertible to the familiar fire resistance.