Solid wood flammability testing

Abstract

Household furniture usually contains at least partly some kind of wood material which brings additional fire hazards in enclosures. The number of different wood products is used in furniture manufacture and each of these classes has different flammability characteristics. In this work, we conducted a number of experiments to assess these characteristics for solid oak and fir board samples. Experiments were conducted on mass loss calorimeter for heat fluxes of 30 40 and 50 kW/m2. Obtained results were in close agreement with the literature findings.