| Download | - View accepted manuscript: An Overview of design fires for building compartments (PDF, 738 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-007-0031-7 |
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| Author | Search for: Bwalya, A. C.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Subject | design fires, pre-flashover, post-flashover, t-squared fires, fire loads; Design fires/Fire modeling |
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| Abstract | The worldwide trend of moving towards performance-based codes has brought about a need for computational tools, most of which rely on suitably-defined design fires, to adequately predict the impact of fires on buildings and their occupants. This literature review was carried out to determine the range of methods used to characterize design fires. The methods currently available were found to be largely empirical in nature and unsophisticated. The two main quantities used to describe design fires are the heat release rate (pre-flashover scenario) and temperature-time profiles (post-flashover). The most commonly used pre-flashover design fires are t2 fires, whereas a host of empirical correlations are available for post-flashover design fires. |
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| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 47655
NRC-IRC-16789 |
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| NPARC number | 20378370 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 1eff5cb1-9d78-449a-acdb-57e059f358fb |
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| Record created | 2012-07-24 |
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| Record modified | 2020-04-15 |
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