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Effects of oxygen availability on the combustion behaviour of materials in a controlled atmosphere cone calorimeter 氧可用性对受控大气锥量热计中材料燃烧行为的影响

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-138

Damien Marquis, É. Guillaume, A. Camillo

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引用次数: 20

An Experimental Study on Attenuation of Radiant Heat Flux from Flame through Water Droplets 水滴对火焰辐射热流衰减的实验研究

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1196

K. Usui, K. Matsuyama

{"title":"An Experimental Study on Attenuation of Radiant Heat Flux from Flame through Water Droplets","authors":"K. Usui, K. Matsuyama","doi":"10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1196","url":null,"abstract":"Suppression system by water spray such as sprinkler system is installed in many buildings and well-known as one of highly effective fire protection methods for enclosure. On the other hand, sprinkler system (hereinafter referred to as SP) would have other effects, such as cooling effect in a compartment, cooling effect of building structure and attenuation of radiant heat flux from fire. In this paper, attenuation of radiant heat flux through water droplets were investigated by full-scale experiments. The fuels were used nheptane and ethanol for comparison of influence of soot particle. 5 kinds of sprinkler nozzles were used in the experiment. Firstly, the fundamental data of the nozzles and flame such as droplets diameter, droplets velocity and distribution of water droplets and radiant spectrum of flame were investigated. Moreover, absorption and transmittance of radiant heat flux was calculated by the Mie theory. And also, an improved prediction model on radiant spectrum was used to predict the radiant spectrum of flame. Thus, absorption and transmittance of radiant heat flux can be calculated by above flame data and fundamental SP data. As the result of calculation parametrically, radiant heat attenuation increases with decreases of droplets diameter. And, it increase approximately linearly depends on amount of total droplets.","PeriodicalId":12145,"journal":{"name":"Fire Safety Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74071292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 9

A Probabilistic Model for the Fallout Area of Single Glazing under Radiant Heat Exposure 辐射热照射下单层玻璃沉降面积的概率模型

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-444

D. Wong, K. Li, M. Spearpoint

引用次数: 9

Fire Whirl due to Interaction between Line Fire and Cross Wind 线火与横风相互作用下的火涡

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1420

K. Zhou, Naian Liu, Panpan Yin, Xieshang Yuan, Juncheng Jiang, S. Key

{"title":"Fire Whirl due to Interaction between Line Fire and Cross Wind","authors":"K. Zhou, Naian Liu, Panpan Yin, Xieshang Yuan, Juncheng Jiang, S. Key","doi":"10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1420","url":null,"abstract":"During the wildland fire of Brazil in 2010 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1306088/Braziltornado-Whirling-column-flames-sweeps-burning-fields.html), a special fire whirl occurred over a narrow but long fire front and moved due to the wind effect. This paper presents an elementary study on such a moving fire whirl by conducting line fire experiments with cross wind. Experimental analysis indicates that a line fire near the ground, a reasonable attack angle between the line fire and the cross wind, and wind speed within a critical range are the three essential conditions for the formation of fire whirl in a line fire. By examining the advection and bending of vorticity, it is also deduced that the concentrated vortex of fire whirl results from the coupling of the line fire plume and the horizontal vortex line near the ground surface. By assuming the solid-body rotation of fire whirl flame, a possible mechanism of moving fire whirl is proposed, which states that the flame moving is mainly controlled by the drag force, lift force and ground friction. Accurate experimental measurements are needed to testify or verify this mechanism in the future work.","PeriodicalId":12145,"journal":{"name":"Fire Safety Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80949453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 22

An Arbitrary Polynomial Chaos-Based Approach to Analyzing the Impacts of Design Parameters on Evacuation Time under Uncertainty 不确定条件下设计参数对疏散时间影响的任意多项式混沌分析

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1077

Q. Xie, Shouxiang Lu, D. Cóstola, J. Hensen

{"title":"An Arbitrary Polynomial Chaos-Based Approach to Analyzing the Impacts of Design Parameters on Evacuation Time under Uncertainty","authors":"Q. Xie, Shouxiang Lu, D. Cóstola, J. Hensen","doi":"10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1077","url":null,"abstract":"In performance-based design of buildings, much attention is paid to design parameters by fire engineers or experts. However, due to the time-consuming evacuation models, it is computationally prohibitive to adopt the conventional Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) to examine the effects of design parameters on evacuation time under uncertainty. To determine suitable design parameters under uncertainty with the reduced significantly computational cost, an arbitrary polynomial chaos-based method is presented in this paper. Arbitrary polynomial chaos expansion is used to construct surrogate models of evacuation time based on complex evacuation models. Afterwards, simple analytical method can be adapted to calculate the mean, standard deviation of evacuation time and Sobol sensitivity indices based on the arbitrary polynomial chaos coefficients. Moreover, the distribution of evacuation time can be generated by combining Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) with the obtained surrogate model. To demonstrate the proposed method, a hypothetical single-storey fire compartment with two exits is presented as a case in accordance with the Chinese code GB50016-2012, evaluating the impact of exit width on evacuation time under uncertain occupant density and child-occupant load ratio. And results show that the proposed method can achieve the distribution of evacuation time close to that from the MCS while dramatically reducing the number of evacuation simulations. When exit width per 100 persons is designed between 0.1 m and 0.5 m, the uncertainty of evacuation time is severely affected by exit width, which is more significant in smaller exit width. However, exit width has a small effect on Sobol sensitivity indices, the reliability level of a certain safety factor, and safety factor at a certain reliability level.","PeriodicalId":12145,"journal":{"name":"Fire Safety Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82373806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Study on Fires Following the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake based on the Questionnaire Survey to Fire Departments in Affected Areas 基于受灾地区消防部门问卷调查的2011年东日本大地震后火灾研究

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-691

A. Sekizawa, K. Sasaki

{"title":"Study on Fires Following the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake based on the Questionnaire Survey to Fire Departments in Affected Areas","authors":"A. Sekizawa, K. Sasaki","doi":"10.3801/iafss.fss.11-691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3801/iafss.fss.11-691","url":null,"abstract":"The 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, caused large-scale fire damage across a wide area, with the type and extent of fire damage exceeding that caused by the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. A particularly distinctive characteristic was the many fires caused either directly or indirectly by the tsunami. The mechanism of occurrence and development of tsunami-induced fires differs significantly from typical earthquake-induced fires. Given these two very different types of initiation scenarios, fires following the Great East-Japan Earthquake were analyzed based on factors such as regional distribution, causes of ignition, pattern of fire development and spread, and size of fire. Data for these analyses were collected from questionnaire surveys of fire departments located in the affected areas. In addition, data are presented on the relationship between seismic intensity and the incidence of earthquake-induced fires. A significant finding from the analysis is that, given the impacts to infrastructure and extent of damage, tsunami-induced fires are likely to spread beyond the control of fire brigades. Therefore, the prevention and mitigation of tsunami-induced fires in the future earthquakes is of great significance.","PeriodicalId":12145,"journal":{"name":"Fire Safety Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83451398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 14

Fire performance evaluation of different resins for potential application in fire resistant structural marine composites 不同树脂在船用耐火结构复合材料中潜在应用的防火性能评价

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.11-769

B. Kandola, L. Krishnan

引用次数: 19

Experimental Evaluation on Performance of Open Kitchen Fire Suppression Systems 开放式厨房灭火系统性能的实验评价

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1298

W. Chow, X. Ni

引用次数: 11

Microscopic Character and Movement Consistency of Pedestrian Group: An Experimental Study in Campus 校园行人群体微观特征与运动一致性实验研究

Fire Safety Science Pub Date : 2014-01-01 DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.11-1103

X. Wei, X. Mai, W. Lv, W. Song