Accession Number:

AD0769526

Title:

Fire Research Abstracts and Reviews. Volume 5, Numbers 1-3.

Descriptive Note:

Annual rept. Jan-Sep 63.

Corporate Author:

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASHINGTON D C COMMITTEE ON FIRE RESEARCH

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1963-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

257.0

Abstract:

A three-document report, volume five in a series, contains materials on thermonuclear detonations, ignition phenomena, thermal decomposition, construction materials, heat and material transfer, laminar fuel jet combustion, ablation, mathematical models, combustion principles and suppression, radiation, model studies and scaling laws, meteorological interactions, instrumentation, forest fires, and fire fighting techniques.

Descriptors:

• IGNITION
• DUST EXPLOSIONS
• PYROLYSIS
• WOOD
• COMBUSTION
• FLAME ARRESTERS
• WIND
• RADIOMETERS
• FIRE FIGHTING
• MINING ENGINEERING
• DIFFUSION
• FOAM
• FOREST FIRES
• FIRE RESISTANCE
• PHOTOTRANSISTORS
• AUTOIGNITION

Subject Categories:

• Forestry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE