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Assessment of fire resistance requirements

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/40001781
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  1. National Research Council of Canada
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SubjectPerformance of:; fire resistance; fire spread; normalized heat load; rooms; normalized heat load calculation; compartment fire spreading potential
Abstract
The calculation of normalized heat load, a succinct quantifier of the potential of compartment fires to spread by destruction, is greatly simplified by the introduction of two semi-empirical equations. These afford direct insight into the relation between the destructive potential of fire and the principal characteristics of the fire compartment and its contents of combustibles.
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PublisherNational Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
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  • Paper (National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research), no. DBR-P-1025 (November 1981).
NoteReprinted from: Fire Technology, v. 17, no. 4, November 1981, p. 221-237. ISSN: 0015-2684
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NRC numberNRCC 20076
NRC-IRC-1522
NPARC number20378989
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