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Estimating room flashover potential

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Flashover is the ultimate event in a room fire signaling the final untenability for room occupants and greatly increased hazard to other building spaces. Despite this importance, hazard evaluations of furnishings and other common fuel loads have normally not been based on estimates of flashover potential. This paper considers a simple combustion model and examines available experimental data.

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  1. Vytenis Babrauskas
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Babrauskas, V. Estimating room flashover potential. Fire Technol 16, 94–103 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481843

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