- Author
- Tokunaga, T. | Amano, K. | Oiwa, D. | Uchiyama, S. | Mizuno, M. | Ohmiya, Y. | Wakamatsu, T. | Tsujimoto, M.
- Title
- Experimentsl Study on the Smoke Behavior and Ensuring the Safety of Staircases in a Station Building During a Fire: Air Current Control in an Underground Station by a Passive Safety System.
- Coporate
- Tokyo University of Science, Japan SANKI Engineering Co. Ltd., Japan
- Journal
- Fire Science and Technology, Vol. 26, No. 1, 9-42, 2007
- Keywords
- tunnels | evacuation | smoke | air current | fire safety | stairways | conservation | stack effect | mist | chimneys | experiments | smoke layers | formulation | temperature | heat release rate | room fires
- Identifiers
- underground station; Japan; hanging wall height and aisle width; smoke behavior; equipment used in the experiments; experimental conditions; change in chinmey cross section and height; smoke interruption between the staircase and the fire room; formulation of the moving velocity, thickness, temperature and the smoke layer in the horizontal long space; calculation of heat and mass inflow from the plume into the smoke layer; smoke behavior after the smoke tip reaches the hanging wall