- 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