Building and Fire Research Laboratory

Loveseat Fire


Loveseat fire time-line

Times are in seconds from ignition. Select a picture to view a larger version.

0 s, 0 kW 26 s, 0 kW 56 s, 28 kW 86 s, 121 kW
116 s, 295 kW 146 s, 400 kW 176 s, 574 kW 206 s, 750 kW
236 s, 1.1 MW 266 s, 1.7 MW 296 s, 2.1 MW 326 s, 2.6 MW
356 s, 3.0 MW 386 s, 2.8 MW 416 s, 2.4 MW 446 s, 1.5 MW

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 available in a generic spread sheet (comma delimited) format and in an Excel worksheet format. Data for the loveseat and sofa is also available in both a generic (comma delimited) format and Excel worksheet format.

Animations

View a movie of this fire by downloading on of the following:

Using a 28.8 kb modem, it takes about one minute to download each animation for every 120 kbytes in size.

Comments

For more information contact:

Daniel Madrzykowski, Leader
Large Fire Research Group
301-975-6677
daniel.madrzykowski@nist.gov




Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899