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Estimating Reduced Fire Risk Resulting from An Improved Mattress Flammability Standard
This study addresses the hazards posed by bed fires of varied sizes in an effort to relate potential fire size reduction to decreased risk of bed fire fatalities. For this purpose, a bed refers to a mattress, a foundation and bedclothes. There are three hazards: (1) the potential for a bed fire, by itself, to cause flashover in a bedroom; (2) the probability that a bed fire will ignite additional objects in the same room as a result of the fire's radiated heat; possibly leading to flashover and (3) the heat and toxic gas threat, in the room of fire origin and beyond, due to the bed fire alone. To address the first two issues, twin and king-size beds of three designs (always using the same bedclothes) were burned in duplicate both under an open hood and in a room. The three designs (termed M1, M3 and M5, consistent with previous usage) produced widely different peak heat release rates; open hood peaks ranged from 160 kW (M3 twin fire) to 3850 kW (M1 king fire). The radiant heat flux distribution around the fires was measured using up to two arrays of five flux gages each. These radiant flux reach data were translated into piloted ignition reach outward from the edge of the burning bed by means of ignitability results for seven materials.
Estimating Reduced Fire Risk Resulting from An Improved Mattress Flammability Standard
This study addresses the hazards posed by bed fires of varied sizes in an effort to relate potential fire size reduction to decreased risk of bed fire fatalities. For this purpose, a bed refers to a mattress, a foundation and bedclothes. There are three hazards: (1) the potential for a bed fire, by itself, to cause flashover in a bedroom; (2) the probability that a bed fire will ignite additional objects in the same room as a result of the fire's radiated heat; possibly leading to flashover and (3) the heat and toxic gas threat, in the room of fire origin and beyond, due to the bed fire alone. To address the first two issues, twin and king-size beds of three designs (always using the same bedclothes) were burned in duplicate both under an open hood and in a room. The three designs (termed M1, M3 and M5, consistent with previous usage) produced widely different peak heat release rates; open hood peaks ranged from 160 kW (M3 twin fire) to 3850 kW (M1 king fire). The radiant heat flux distribution around the fires was measured using up to two arrays of five flux gages each. These radiant flux reach data were translated into piloted ignition reach outward from the edge of the burning bed by means of ignitability results for seven materials.
Estimating Reduced Fire Risk Resulting from An Improved Mattress Flammability Standard
T. J. Ohlemiller (author) / R. G. Gann (author)
2002
86 pages
Report
No indication
English
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