Citation

Brundage AL, Burl Donaldson A, Gill W, Kearney SP, Nicolette VF, Yilmaz N. J. Fire Sci. 2011; 29(3): 195-211.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0734904110386187

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This PIRT exercise identifies a number of factors which can influence thermocouple readings made in fires. Identified factors are: (a) the fuel/oxidizer equivalence ratio and its effect on readings, (b) the influence of the state of oxidation and variation with time for the thermocouple sheath, (c) the convection coefficient models and how experimental readings are influenced by thermocouple diameter and yaw angle, (d) response time of a MIMS thermocouple, and (e) thermocouple end effects.