-it was awarded the "R&D 100 Award" in 1988. It was the first-ever fire testing apparatus to be recognized by the award to NIST of the most prestigious American award for technology... currently one active manufacturer ofCone Calorimeters: Fire Testing Technology Ltd. In the past, Atlas Electric, Dark Star Research, University of Ghent, and PL Thermal Sciences..., but there is growing interest in that sector. For-fee testing activities take place at both the independent laboratories and, in many countries, at government research/testing...

laboratories make a measurement and the 95% confidence interval encompasses a scatter of only +1%, then the precision would extraordinarily good (this does not happen in fire testing...-conducted round-robin. In a few cases, true values can be established by other independent means, but this is not common in fire testing. For HRR testing of solids or liquids...

engineering solution. E criteria. There may be no objects which can fall on top of evacuees along the exit path. Some examples of SOPRO innovative approaches in the fire testing area While... propagation characteristics from flat walls. Such walls are often specified by architects in auditoriums. The final SOPRO report is to contain special provisions for the testing..., small scale testing according to the small-scale ISO 5660 Cone Calorimeter will be entirely adequate. For validation work and for highly unusual structures, large scale testing...

first be determined is whether it is reasonable to run bench-scale tests or whether full-scale testing is needed. We may note that for polymer manufacturers and others developing new... materials, it is often sufficient to only use bench-scale testing. This is because they mainly wish to find the relative differences in fire behavior, while actual product... however, HRR testing is well established, and eventually it is also certain to become utilized in building codes. Some common misconceptions We have taken measures to control...

Testing at Room Temperature and at Elevated Conductor Temperatures, pp. 1-3 in Proc. of 24th Intl. Wire and Cable Symp.,U.S. Army Electronic Command, Cherry Hill, NJ (1975). NTIS No...