Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

Experiments, in which wood cribs were burned in a well-ventilated brick compartment 2.4m (8ft) cube, are described. The rates of burning of these cribs were lower than those predicted from an extrapolation, from smaller scale, of the relationship between the rate of burning and the weight of the crib. However, the measurements of both the intensity of radiation from the opening and the ratio of flame height to a dimension of the compartment are consistent with predictions based on the smaller scale experiments.