- Author
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Joyeux, D.
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Kruppa, J.
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Cajot, L. G.
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Schleich, J. B.
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vandeLeur, P.
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Twilt, L.
- Title
- Demonistration of Real Fire Tests in Car Parks and High Buildings. Final Report. July 1, 1998 to June 30, 2001.
- Coporate
- CTICM, Cedex, France
Arbed Recherches, G.D. Luxembourg
TNO Institute for Building Materials and Construction, Delft, The Netherlands
- Report
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Final Report,
June 2002,
168 p.
- Contract
- 7215-PP-025
- Keywords
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garages
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automobiles
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high rise buildings
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fire tests
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simulation
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computational fluid dynamics
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fire statistics
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automobile fires
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fire protection engineering
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fire spread
- Identifiers
- demonstration test in high building; statistics of fires in car parks; additional car fire tests under calorimetric hood; design of the experimental open car park; application of fire engineering method before the test; 2D and 3D calculations of the demonstration test; statistics on real fire in car parks in different cities in Europe
- Abstract
- Researches sponsored by ECSC have just demonstrated that, in case of fire in car parks or in high buildings, it is generally not necessary to insulate the steel section (beam and/or columns) to obtain a satisfactory safety level. These researches are based on some specific simple fire tests and on numerical simulations. In order to fully convince national authorities that these kinds of buildings don't need a large duration of fire resistance requirements, it was planned to carry out real fires in real unprotected steel buildings. These fires were performed in 3 different configurations: (*) a large (high) compartment with a local fire; (*) an open car park with a fire scenario involving several cars; (*) a closed car park with a fire scenario involving several cars.