Data from "Full-Scale Experiments to Demonstrate Flammability Risk of Residential Upholstered Furniture and Mitigation Using Barrier Fabric"

This study looks at fire growth in a furnished compartment intended to mimic a living room where a couch, either with or without a barrier fabric, served as the primary fuel load. The experiments were designed to quantify the effect of barrier fabrics on the fire hazard (e.g., tenability conditions, heat release rate, time to flashover and smoke generation) of residential upholstered furniture (RUF) ignited by a flaming-ignition source and to validate the failure mechanisms of barrier fabrics previously observed in chair mock-up experiments.