- Author
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Tanaka, T.
- Title
- Model on Fire Spread in Small Scale Building.
- Coporate
- Building Research Inst., Tokyo, Japan
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NBS SP 540
September 1978
79 p.
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Fire Research and Safety. 3rd Joint Panel Proceedings Conference of the U.S. Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR). March 13-17, 1978,
National Bureau of Standards,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Sherald, M. A., Editors,
264-355 p.,
1979
- Keywords
-
fire spread
|
building fires
- Abstract
- This paper describes the theory and some results of sample computer simulations on a model which is devised in order to predict the behavior of the hot gas generted by a fire source combustion when a fire breaks out in a small scale building. This model is to compute the temperatures and depths of the hot gas layers in arbitrary rooms in a fire starting building on the basis of fundamental assumption that the hot gas layers are formed and kept near the ceilings in any rooms into which the hot gas flows in. The author hopes that this model can be used to investigte the role that the hot gas plays on the fire spread from one room to another in small scale buildings such as Japanese dwelling houses. The application of the model to one or two floor buildings seems comparatively well.