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Sensitivity of the Room/Corner test to variations in the test system and product properties
Author(s) -
Kokkala Matti A.
Publication year - 1993
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.810170504
Subject(s) - combustor , gas burner , calorimeter (particle physics) , cone calorimeter , sensitivity (control systems) , nuclear engineering , materials science , simulation , environmental science , mechanics , automotive engineering , engineering , chemistry , char , combustion , waste management , detector , physics , electrical engineering , organic chemistry , pyrolysis , electronic engineering
The effects of variations in the ISO 9705 Room/Corner Test equipment and product properties are discussed. Previous experimental results are reviewed and some new results from the EUREFIC fire research programme are reported. The effects considered include the room dimensions, the burner size, the heat output of the burner and the stand‐off distance of the burner. The error in the measured peak rate of heat release caused by the finite response time of the oxygen consumption calorimeter due to mixing of the exhaust gases is analyzed in detail. The effect of material properties determined with the cone calorimeter are evaluated by employing models simulating the Room/Corner Test.