freeburn

See also: Freeburn

English

Etymology

free +‎ burn

Noun

freeburn (plural freeburns)

1. An unconstrained fire.
   • 1975, Fire Journal - Volume 69, page 55:

     Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 2 showed that rate-of-rise or rate-anticipating thermal detectors spaced as little as two feet or six feet directly above a 2½-square-foot alcohol fire, after a freeburn of 30 seconds, either did not detect at all within 30 seconds or, did so between 28 and 30 seconds.

   • 1989, Takao Wakamatsu, Fire safety science: proceedings of the second international symposium:

     These time intervals, commencing with the completion of the incipient time period, were then referenced on a freeburn fire growth curve generated by Lee for this type fuel array, and the associated convective heat release rate determined.

   • 1998, Ned R. Keltner, Norman J. Alvares, S. J. Grayson, Very Large-scale Fires, →ISBN, page 158:

     Envirogel was only tested against two scenarios due to agent distribution system problems. Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated.

   • 2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN, page 121:

     In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires.