• Fire Appliance Response Time

  Determine how long a New South Wales fire appliance takes to travel a given distance, using the travel speeds in Table F2 of the Fire Brigade Intervention Model.

• Conductive Heat Transfer Rate

  Calculate the steady-state rate of heat conduction through a material from its thermal conductivity, thickness, area and the temperature difference across it.

• Detector and Sprinkler Activation Time

  Calculate the time for a heat detector or sprinkler head to reach its activation temperature under a growing t² fire, using the DETACT ceiling-jet correlations.

• FDS Mesh Cell Size

  Determine a suitable Fire Dynamics Simulator mesh cell size from the characteristic fire diameter D*, following the FDS User Guide.

• Flame Height and Plume Temperature

  Calculate the flame height of a fire and the plume centreline temperature with height, using the Heskestad and McCaffrey correlations.

• Flame Height from an Opening

  Determine the height a flame projects from an opening in an external wall, and how far it stands off the wall, from the compartment floor area, opening dimensions and fire load density.

• Radiant Heat Flux (Complex)

  Determine the radiant heat flux received at any point relative to a rectangular emitter, where the receiver is offset from the emitter centre in X, Y and Z.

• Radiant Heat Flux (Simple)

  Determine the radiant heat flux received at a given distance directly opposite the centre of a rectangular emitter.

• t² Fire — Time to Maximum Heat Release Rate

  Calculate how long a t² design fire takes to reach a nominated maximum heat release rate, and plot the heat release rate curve up to that point.

• t² Fire — Heat Release Rate at a Given Time

  Calculate the heat release rate a t² design fire has reached at a nominated time, and plot the growth curve up to that point.