The possibility of characterizing the severity of fires by a single parameter

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/40001694
Author	Search for: Harmathy, T. Z.¹
Affiliation	National Research Council of Canada
Format	Text, Article
Subject	Fire; effects of fire; quantification; heating loads
Abstract	Because language conveys the idea of fire severity by a single expression, it has always seemed desirable to find a single variable for its quantification. The earlier suggestion by the author that the total heat absorption per unit surface area of the compartment boundaries during the period of full fire development, to be referred to as overall heat load, be used as a measure of destructive potential of fires, has been critically examined. It has been found that for many reinforced and prestressed concrete building elements, the overall heat load is indeed an approximate descriptor of the severity of compartment fires, irrespective of their temperature histories.
Publication date	1980
Publisher	National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Series	Paper (National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research), no. DBR-P-901 (1980).
Note	Reprinted from: Fire and Materials, v. 4, no. 2, June 1980, p. 71-76. ISSN: 0308-0501
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NRC number	NRCC 18296 NRC-IRC-1493
NPARC number	20378649
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