Elements and Performance Criteria
- Research combustion process as it relates to different materials.
- Processes and flame characteristics of combustion of solids, liquids and gases are identified and recorded from a research and analysis process.
- Factors contributing to combustion are identified and recorded.
- Endothermic and exothermic processes are researched and recorded.
- Heat of combustion fuels is calculated without error.
- Factors contributing to propagating flame front are analysed and recorded.
- Analyse flammability of matter in different states.
- Flammability in terms of fire triangle and fire tetrahedron theories is analysed and recorded.
- Flammability of matter in physical states is examined and recorded.
- Flammability in terms of upper and lower flammability limits is identified and recorded.
- Factors contributing to the explosiveness of dusts are identified and recorded.
- Identify conditions of burning at the fire point.
- Record mechanisms of heat transfer during fire growth, development and spread.
- Record the behaviour of building materials subjected to extreme levels of heat.
- Devise the fire load of a building and describe the effect on the BCA classification and compartmentation.
- Report the requirements of fire resistance of building elements and forms of construction.