Fire Modeling – Small-Scale, Full-Scale and Computer

Our experienced staff utilize our fire testing facilities in Nova Scotia to conduct comprehensive physical fire testing and modeling.

Full-Scale tests are replications of a fire scenario that create a structure or item with similar geometric dimensions and attempt to reproduce fire phenomena. The major benefit of full-scale tests is that they are more representative of the actual scenario.

Small-Scale tests are replications of a fire scenario that create a structure or item with scaled-down with a geometric dimension and / or other variables (i.e. physical scaling laws). The benefits of small-scale tests it that they are relatively inexpensive and may provide mathematical relationships that can be extrapolated for full-scale tests and models.

Computer fire modeling is steadily increasing in use for fire investigations. Computer Fire Modeling is a scientific and generally accepted method for testing a hypothesis. It’s primary use, falls within the testing of one’s hypothesis in the scientific method as it pertains to understanding the fire, timeline analysis, occupant survivability, and fuels analysis, and to analyzing post-fire indicators.