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Brandleistung

English translation: fire performance / fire behavio(u)r

09:20 Jun 3, 2021
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / Fires
German term or phrase: Brandleistung
Brandversuche haben gezeigt, dass die Brandleistung bei Fahrzeugen einer Generation und Größe unabhängig von der Antriebsart ähnlich ist.
Die verbauten Brandlasten wie Kunststoffanteile in heutigen Fahrzeugen sind ausschlaggebend für die zunehmend höhere Rauch- und Wärmefreisetzung bei Fahrzeugbränden.
AndrewSzep
Local time: 10:09
English translation:fire performance / fire behavio(u)r
Explanation:
This seems to be a direct back-translation of the English "fire performance". In German, I'd rather put "Brandverhalten" or "Verhalten unter Brandeinwirkung/im Brandfall" in this context.

See, for example,

https://polymerandfire.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/06-buc.pd... (p. 2)
"Every structure, transportation, storage and processing-related fire presents an opportunity to evaluate, examine and improve fire test methods, the fire performance of materials and fire mitigation and protection strategies. ... Near misses and fire loss investigations are useful when the data is used to: 1) improve the fire performance of materials, ..."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229041333_Flammabil...
"Subsequent to the GM study, and in response to the 1997 NTSB recommendations, studies were initiated by the NHTSA [27,[29][30][31][32], GM [33], the MVFRI [21,22,[24][25][26], the National Fire Protection Association's Research Foundation [34] and other organizations [35][36][37] to investigate the fire performance of current automotive materials and to identify or develop test methods to rate fire performance and establish criteria that would significantly improve post-crash vehicle survivability. All these studies reached essentially the same conclusions: ..."

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Note added at 19 mins (2021-06-03 09:39:44 GMT)
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Barbara has apparently hit the nail squarely on its head - please disregard my answer.
Selected response from:

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 10:09
Grading comment
Also: heat release (rate)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4heat release (rate)
Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
4performance
Cillie Swart
3fire performance / fire behavio(u)r
Steffen Walter


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
performance


Explanation:
How well cars or other vehicles resist or suppress fires, in other words how they perform in fire tests. Since the context already makes it clear that this involves a fire test, we don't have to say fire test performance. Just performance.

Cillie Swart
South Africa
Local time: 10:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 10
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you!

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
heat release (rate)


Explanation:
see also
http://firebid.umd.edu/docs/Kim - HRR of Burning Items in Fi...

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Note added at 11 Min. (2021-06-03 09:31:07 GMT)
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or: peak temperature // temperature output

file:///C:/Users/trans/AppData/Local/Temp/Szajewska_determining_MAM_6_2015.pdf

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Note added at 11 Min. (2021-06-03 09:32:01 GMT)
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https://www.bse.polyu.edu.hk/researchCentre/Fire_Engineering...

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Note added at 16 Min. (2021-06-03 09:36:15 GMT)
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or: heat output // flame spread
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X1...

Barbara Schmidt, M.A. (X)
Germany
Local time: 10:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 22
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you! I liked this best, but the customer wanted "fire performance", so ...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: Ja, das erscheint doch wahrscheinlicher - siehe https://www.secupedia.info/wiki/Brandleistung (ich war zunächst von einer 1:1-Übernahme des englischen "fire performance" ausgegangen).
10 mins
  -> Vielen Dank, Steffen! :-)
agree  Kartik Isaac
1 hr
  -> Dankeschön! :-)
agree  Z-Translations Translator
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Z!
agree  Esther Pugh
6 hrs
  -> Thank you, Esther!
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
fire performance / fire behavio(u)r


Explanation:
This seems to be a direct back-translation of the English "fire performance". In German, I'd rather put "Brandverhalten" or "Verhalten unter Brandeinwirkung/im Brandfall" in this context.

See, for example,

https://polymerandfire.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/06-buc.pd... (p. 2)
"Every structure, transportation, storage and processing-related fire presents an opportunity to evaluate, examine and improve fire test methods, the fire performance of materials and fire mitigation and protection strategies. ... Near misses and fire loss investigations are useful when the data is used to: 1) improve the fire performance of materials, ..."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229041333_Flammabil...
"Subsequent to the GM study, and in response to the 1997 NTSB recommendations, studies were initiated by the NHTSA [27,[29][30][31][32], GM [33], the MVFRI [21,22,[24][25][26], the National Fire Protection Association's Research Foundation [34] and other organizations [35][36][37] to investigate the fire performance of current automotive materials and to identify or develop test methods to rate fire performance and establish criteria that would significantly improve post-crash vehicle survivability. All these studies reached essentially the same conclusions: ..."

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Note added at 19 mins (2021-06-03 09:39:44 GMT)
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Barbara has apparently hit the nail squarely on its head - please disregard my answer.

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 10:09
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 290
Grading comment
Also: heat release (rate)
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