Assessing the predictive capability for real-scale residential upholstered furniture mock-up fires using cone calorimeter measurements:

Pitts, William M.; Werrel, Martin; Fernández, Marco Gero; Long, Michael T.; Eisenberg, Evan A.; Filliben, James J.; Runyon, Cory D.

doi:10.6028/nist.sp.1246

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“…Additional details concerning construction of the cushions along with photographs of the construction process are included in NIST SP1246. 9 T A B L E 3 Properties of FRFPUF supplied by manufacturer…”

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“…23 A number of potential approaches for characterizing the HRR curves were considered in our NIST SP, but ultimately it was decided to use the 10 parameters discussed below. 9 In previous studies of RUF burning behavior the initial fire growth has sometimes been characterized in terms of the period required to grow to an arbitrary, relatively low value of HRR, for example, see the CBUF study. 24 Since multiple HRR peaks were characteristic of the temporal profiles for many of the mock-up combinations, it was desirable to capture their characteristics in some way.…”

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“…Appendix B of the NIST SP. 9 With regard to the analysis, two Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) techniques were employed:…”

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“…A NIST Special Publication (SP) is available that provides background for the study and includes more details concerning the experimental and statistical approaches, compilations of the experimental and statistical analysis results, and the findings. 9…”

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Effects of upholstery materials on the burning behavior of real‐scale residential upholstered furniture mock‐ups

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Fire spread and growth on real-scale four cushion mock-ups of residential upholstered furniture (RUF) were investigated with the goal of identifying whether changes in five classes of materials (barrier, flexible polyurethane foam, polyester fiber wrap, upholstery fabric, and sewing thread), referred to as factors, resulted in statistically significant changes in burning behavior. A fractional factorial experimental design plus practical considerations yielded a test matrix with 20 material combinations. Experiments were repeated a minimum of two times. Measurements included fire spread rates derived from video recordings and heat release rates (HRRs). A total of 13 experimental parameters (3 based on the videos and 10 on the HRR results), referred to as responses, characterized the measurements. Statistical analyses based on Main Effects Plots (main effects) and Block Plots (main effects and factor interactions) were used. The results showed that three of the factors resulted in statistically significant effects on varying numbers of the 13 responses. The Barrier and Fabric factors had the strongest main effects with roughly comparable magnitudes. Foam was statistically significant for fewer of the responses and its overall strength was weaker than for Barrier and Fabric. No statistically significant main effects were identified for Wrap or Thread. Multiple two-term interactions between factors were identified as being statistically significant. The Barrier*Fabric interaction resulted in the highest number of and strongest statistically significant effects. The existence of two-term interactions means that it will be necessary to consider their effects in approaches designed to predict the burning behavior of RUF.

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Section: Cushion Construction and Materials Utilizedmentioning

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“…Appendix B of the NIST SP. 9 With regard to the analysis, two Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) techniques were employed:…”

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“…A barrier fabric was added as a liner between the cover fabric and the wadding in Test 2 only. Metal staples in place of sewing thread and zippers were used to close the barrier fabric seams because seam failure was previously observed even with fire resistant threads and aluminum zippers [30]. The seams were obtained by overlapping about 50 mm of barrier fabric on each side of the seam and by folding the overlapped barrier fabrics in half before stapling.…”

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