Experimental full-scale car fire study

作者：Rui Sheng Hu · 发表于：Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology) · 年份：2010 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Fire dynamics and safety research

The characteristics of a fire in a car interior were studied using two full scale fire experiments in a car.The first test was a smoldering test to study the possibility of ignition by a cigarette stub placed on the back seat of a car.The second test was a full scale car fire set from the back seat to simulate arson.The tests used videos,thermocouples and thermometers to record data.The results show that the smoldering of the back seats develops slowly and did not easily ignite a fire.Also the fire scale in an enclosed interior could go out due to the lack of oxygen.The fire in the car tends to spread to the trunk rather than the engine compartment since there are more parts between the engine compartment and the interior.