Patent ID: 8540421

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; and a memory accessible to the processor, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to: access a thermal profile of a suppressed fire in a physical model of a cargo compartment of an aircraft, wherein the physical model is built to enable measurement of temperatures generated during ignition and suppression of a controlled cargo fire, wherein the thermal profile of the suppressed fire includes one or more profiles of temperature versus time for a plurality of locations in the physical model of the cargo compartment; analyze heat transfer resulting from applying the thermal profile of the suppressed fire to a structure of the aircraft surrounding the cargo compartment to determine a predicted temperature reached by one or more parts of the structure surrounding the cargo compartment as a result of the suppressed fire; and generate an output at a display or other output device of a computer system, the output including the predicted temperature reached by the one or more parts of the structure surrounding the cargo compartment.