Three Panel Workstation Fire

Three panel workstation fire time-line

This test was sponsored by the General Services Administration (GSA) and performed at BFRL in 1991. Times are in seconds from ignition. Select a picture to view a larger version.

0 min, 30 kW 1 min, 190 kW 2 min, 220 kW 3 min, 260 kW 4 min, 110 kW
5 min, 150 kW 6 min, 860 kW 7 min, 1.0 MW 8 min, 2.8 MW 9 min, 6.6 MW
10 min, 3.2 MW 11 min, 2.1 MW 12 min, 1.4 MW 14 min, 630 kW 16 min, 690 kW
18 min, 480 kW 22 min, 530 kW 26 min, 390 kW 30 min, 370 kW 34 min, 350 kW

The fire size in kilowatts versus time

Fire Data

The heat release data for this case is incorporated into the default one-room case for CFAST/FASTLite. If you are running FASTLite, we suggest that you copy this file into the default example directory, C:\FLITE . The data is also available in a spread sheet (comma delimited) format.

Animations

View a movie of this fire by downloading one of the following quicktime or mpeg files.

Frame RateAnimation Format
Quick TimeMPEG
7.5 frames per minute 1.5 MB 1.5 MB
45 frames per minute 8.6 MB 8.7 MB

Using a 14.4 kb modem, it takes about one minute to download each animation for every 60 kbytes in size. These animations were converted from video by the Scientific Applications Support Group at NIST.



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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899