Citation

Williams-Leir G. Fire Technol. 1978; 14(3): 223-225.

Affiliation

Fire Research Section Division of Building Research, National Research Council of Canada, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01983056

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The procedure by which a flame spread index is calculated in the Steiner Tunnel Test has recently been revised by ASTM. The new index is shown to measure average flame speed, weighted so as to emphasize the flame behavior in the earlier part of the test.