- Author
- Schubert, R.
- Title
- Examination of the Building Density and Fuel Loading in the Districts Eimsbuttel and Hammerbrook in the City of Hamburg as of July 1943.
- Coporate
- Southwest Research Inst., San Antonio, TX
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
- SRI Project MU-6464, January 1969, 114 p.
- Contract
- N00228-67-C-1519
- Keywords
- civil defense | fire statistics | housing | fire risk | fire storms | fuel load | damage
- Identifiers
- building ground coverage; building fuel content; Hamburg population statistics; structural classification of buildings
- Abstract
- The first part of this document presents a summary of building coverage and fuel loading in the conflagration areas of Eimsbuttel and Hammerbrook in the city of Hamburg as of July 1943. Detailed descriptions are given of methods for structural classificaiton of buildings and for computation of equivalent wood fuel values of component parts of the buildings as derived from building plans. Exemplary procedures are given. The second part of the document is a statistical summary of population and housing before and after the air raids of July and August 1943. An appendix suggests a method for the classification of buildings according to damage risk, depending on the amount, kind, and distribuiton of flammable materials that comprise the structure and its contents. Supplementary and tabular conclusions of this report suggest that it is possible to gain insight into the conditional factors that are important or even decisive in the development of a fire storm as a result of windspread incendiary bombing.