- Author
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Hadjisophocleous, G.
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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
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fire safety
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fire science
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design fires
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fire load
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commercial buildings
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surveys
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experiments
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computer models
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combustibles
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fuels
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fire tests
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flashover
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heat release rate
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temperature
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compartments
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toxic gases
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computational fluid dynamics
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scenarios
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fire risk
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risk analysis
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methodology
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heat flux
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production rate
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carbon dioxide
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room fires
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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)