Development of the Fire Data Management System.
Development of the Fire Data Management System.
(1408 K)
Mowrer, F. W.
NIST GCR 94-639; 35 p. June 1994.
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB94-206091
Keywords:
cone calorimeters; corner tests; databases; fire safety;
flame spread; furniture calorimeters; heat release;
numeric databases; room tests; small scale fire tests
Abstract:
The Fire Data Management System (FDMS) is being
developed under international collaboration to provide
uniform means for storing fire test data. The purpose
of the present work has been to aid the development of
the FDMS for practical use by fire safety design
professionals with respect to the following three tasks:
(*) Recovery of existing data at BFRL/NIST for
implementation into the FDMS; (*) Generation of
additional data not already available; (*) Development
of engineering guidelines for use of the FDMS. To be of
practical use by fire safety design professionals, the
FDMS must contain relevant data and these data must be
readily accessible. Currently, the data fields in the
FDMS are too general and too restricted to be of
practical design use. Additional data fields are needed
in the FDMS to assist the design professional find
flammability test data relevant to the design of
different combustible objects in buildings. To help
identify the types of additional data fields that are
needed, a series of morphological charts have been
developed to describe the types, elements and attributes
of combustible objects in buildings. These
morphological charts represent a first effort to
describe a common syntax for identifying appropriate
objects and their attributes for flammability analyses.
Further refinement of the morphological charts is
needed.
