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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 48286 |
| CIS number |
87-1038 |
| Year |
1986 |
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| Title |
Fire and smoke: understanding the hazards |
| Bibliographic information |
Committee on Fire Toxicology, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20418, USA, 1986. 156p. Illus. 233 ref. Price: US$16.00 (USA, Canada, Mexico); US$19.25 (elsewhere). |
| Abstract |
Report supported by a consortium of US Federal agencies. Contents: fire deaths in the US; a primer on fire and fire hazard (the burning process, a typical compartment fire, fire hazard assessment, time needed for escape, time available for escape); status of fire hazard models and test methods; hazards associated with fires (heat, oxygen depletion, smoke, effects of smoke inhalation); laboratory methods for evaluation of toxic potency of smoke (combustion product toxicity tests, chemical analysis versus biological assay, test methods that use death as an end point, nonlethal test methods); two case studies illustrating guidelines for hazard assessment (burning of an upholstered chair, concealed combustible material). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
fire; fire research; hazard evaluation; safety analysis |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
USA; report; smoke; fire detection; escape time; toxicity evaluation; statistical aspects; pyrolysis products |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Fire and explosions
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Fires, explosions and major hazards
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| Browse category(ies) |
Fires
Risk evaluation
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