- Author
- Hadjisophocleous, G. | Zalok, E.
- Title
- Development of Design Fires for Performance-Based Fire Safety Designs.
- Coporate
- Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Ninth (9th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 21-26, 2008, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Karlsruhe, Germany, Karlsson, B., Editors, 63-78 p., 2008
- Keywords
- fire safety | fire science | design fires | fire load | commercial buildings | surveys | experiments | computer models | combustibles | fuels | fire tests | flashover | heat release rate | temperature | compartments | toxic gases | computational fluid dynamics | scenarios | fire risk | risk analysis | methodology | heat flux | production rate | carbon dioxide | room fires | carbon monoxide
- Identifiers
- performance-based fire safety design; FIre Risk Evaluation and Cost Assessment Model (FIRECAM); floor area, fire load density and total fire load for all 168 stores in the survey; contribution of types of combustibles to the fire loads of different stores; details of the fuel packages, their fire load densities and combustible materials; heat released, growth rates and heat content; hot layer temperature and heat flux values; Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)