Publication Date: June 1995
Hardback, pp406 with 67 tables and 224 illustrations
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Edited by Bjorn Sundström
Fires in upholstered furniture are dangerous. Fire statistics show that the majority of European casualties are due to fires in upholstered furniture. Yet little is known about the burning behaviour of these products and very few procedures are available for assessing their hazard. The atmosphere in a room in which an upholstered furniture is on fire should be possible to predict and the corresponding hazard to people should be analysed.The Combustion Behaviour of Upholstered Furniture (CBUF) Programme was initiated by the Commission of the European Communities DGXII, to develop methods for measuring the burning behaviour of upholstered furniture needed for the implementation of possible EU or national legislation or for European standardisation.

• The CBUF Research Programme. Objectives,technical contents and majors findings
• The CBUF Research Programme Structure
• Hazard Analysis in Rooms
• Room Fire Testing Technology
• Furniture Calorimeter Testing Technology
• Predictions of Room Fire Conditions
• Small Scale Testing of Furniture Composites
• Predicting Full Scale Furniture Burning Behaviour from Small Scale Test Data
• Small Scale Testing of Furniture Components
• Predictive Model from the Small Scale Component Data to the Small Scale Composite Data; Material Selection and Design Strategies for Furniture Manufacturers

Appendices 1-10.