The MaCFP Condensed Phase Working Group was organized to enable the fire safety science research community to make significant progress towards establishing a common framework for the selection of experiments and the methodologies used to analyze these experiments when developing pyrolysis models. Key objectives of this effort include:
- Cataloguing current approaches used to parameterize pyrolysis models;
- Developing standard data set formats for experimental data on pyrolysis;
- Developing requirements for data set quality and establishing a data review committee;
- Quantifying the inter-laboratory variability for comparable experimental datasets; and
- Assessing the impact of the variability of model parameters on fire growth predictions
Guidelines for Participation in the MaCFP-4 Workshop (2026)
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MaCFP-2 Preliminary Summary of Experimental Measurements
If you have questions regarding any of the activities or measurement data of the MaCFP Condensed Subgroup, please start a discussion post. The purpose of this forum is to facilitate data sharing and model development to improve computational predictions of thermal degradation and pyrolysis in fire.
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