Citation

Hardee HC, Lee DO. Fire Safety J. 1978; 1(3): 199-205.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

A simple conduction model is developed for skin burns resulting from a short-duration heat pulse of the type that commonly occurs with typical chemical fireballs. This model predicts the absorbed heat values necessary to produce second and third degree burns for constant heat pulses of 1 to 36 s duration. The results of the model are shown to correlate well with test data for swine and human skin.