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Author
Hokugo, A. | Hasemi, Y. | Hayashi, Y. | Yoshida, M.
Title
Mechanism for the Upward Fire Spread Through Balconies Based on an Investigation and Experiments for Multi-Story Fire in High-Rise Apartment Buildings.
Coporate
Kobe Univ., Japan Waseda Univ., Japan Building Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
Book or Conf
Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Sixth (6th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). July 5-9, 1999, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Poitiers, France, Curtat, M., Editors, 649-660 p., 2000
Keywords
fire research | fire safety | fire science | fire spread | high rise buildings | apartments | experiments | polymethyl methacrylate | fire investigations | flame height
Identifiers
balconies; layout of the Hiroshima Motomachi apartment complex; pre-experiment study for the mechanism of the fast fire spared; increase of flame height by the both-fact burning of vertical PMMA; merging of vertical flames and involvement of the combustible packages on the balcony into fire