- Author
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Klote, J. H.
- Title
- Full Scale Smoke Control Tests at the Plaza Hotel Building.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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ASHRAE Journal,
Vol. 31,
No. 4,
28-30,32,
April 1989
- Keywords
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hotels
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smoke control
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building fires
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zone models
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fire tests
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stairwells
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pressurization
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elevator shafts
- Abstract
- Frequently in building fires, smoke flows through many leakage paths to remote locations, threatening life and damaging property. These leakage paths can be open doors, gaps around closed doors, stairwells, mechanical shafts, elevator shafts and cracks or openings in construction. As a solution to the smoke problem, the concept of smoke control has developed. Smoke control makes use of fans to produce pressure differences and air flows that can control smoke movement. Primarily smoke control is achieved by pressure differences acting across the barriers of buildings.