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Ignition Handbook: Principles and Applications to Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Investigation, Risk Management and Forensic Science


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Ignition Handbook: Principles and Applications to Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Investigation, Risk Management and Forensic Science

Author

Vytenis Babrauskas

Year of Publication

2003-01-01

Publisher

Fire Science Pub

City of Publication

Issaquah, WA

Pages

1116

Language

en

ISBN

0972811133, 9780972811132

ARI Id

1673320219423


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Chapter 1 Introduction
Background
Fire ignition statistics
The fire triangle and taxonomy of ignitions
Some complications of definition
Types of combustion and combustion-like reactions
Apparatus-dependent nature of ignition
The probabilistic nature of ignition and negative proof
Comments to the fire investigator
Computer methods
Chapter 2 Terminology
Terms used in this book
Definitions
Abbreviations and acronyms
Chapter 3 Fundamentals of combustion
Thermochemistry
Heat of combustion
Constant-volume heat of combustion
Effective heat of combustion; heats of explosion and detonation
Relations between fuel and air
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