Speaker: David Morrisset, PhD Student - University of Edinburgh
Developing a characteristic design fire lies at the heart of many aspects of fire engineering. The time-resolved development of a fire heat release rate (HRR) is the integrated effect of various competing phenomena. The following will present fire test data - from the bench-scale to full-scale furniture calorimetry - to demonstrate the driving factors of fire growth rate. The presentation will also touch on the concept of flame spread and the implications of different flame spread regimes on fire growth.