- Author
- Santos, D. M.
- Title
- First Approximation of an Engineering Design Method for Evaluating Building Separation Under Fire Conditions.
- Coporate
- Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA
- Report
- Thesis, June 1990, 240 p.
- Keywords
- building fires | exposure | fire breaks | fire hazard distances | fire spread | flame emissivity | flame radiation | flame size | flame temperature | radiant heating | atmospheric transmissivity | radiation heat flux
- Identifiers
- source energy; energy transfer; target energy tolerance; procedure for use of methodology; example of radiant flux on a target; example of use of the Swedish method; example of use of Lie equations; example of ventilation controlled vs. fuel controlled computation; example of calculations of flame energing from an opening; example of computation of transmissivity through a water spray; transient one-dimensional heat conduction; sample evaluation of a building separation under fire conditions
- Abstract
- A first approximation for a generic engineering methodology for use in analyzing the fire exposure hazard at a target building due to radiant heat flux from a burning source building has been developed. The methodology entails evaluation of: the source radiant heat flux based on the radiation flame temperature and geometry at the burning building, the target radiant heat flux based on view factors and atmospheric transmissivity to the target building, and the critical radiant heat flux based on material properties of the target building.