5. Summary and conclusions
A method to quantify heat detectors’thermal response sensitivities that would
enable fire safety engineers to estimate the response times of heat detectors with
reliable accuracy was established by this work. Multiple samples from 11 detector
types, all fixed temperature rating ones, were used in the study. The project was
carried out with two subtasks: bench-scale tests measuring thermal response
sensitivities of the samples and full-scale tests validating the methodology developed
in the first task.