- Author
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Wakamatsu, T.
- Title
- Smoke Movement in Building Fires: Field Experiment in Welfare Ministry Building and Analysis of Sennichi Building Fire.
- Coporate
- Building Research Inst., Tokyo, Japan
- Report
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Research Paper 61; CIB W14/132/76 (J)
1975
26 p.
- Keywords
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smoke movement
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building fires
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experiments
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combustion
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compartments
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effectiveness
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reliability
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occupants
- Identifiers
- history of studies on smoke in Japan; fire experiment in Welfare Ministry Building; analysis of Sennichi Building fire
- Abstract
- Generally, a disaster breaks out and spreads over with extremely complicated mechanism. It goes without saying that the building fire is made no exception of it. For this reson, most of disasters causing human deaths and injuries have allowed to trace their development, but not allowed prediction. Since fire protection problems involve various factors, an one-sided approach is not suffiient for protecting measures against fire. For this reason, fire regulations intend to secure occupants against smoke by various measures, including the prevention of outbreak and spread of fire, smoke control and early evacuation etc. However, these individual regulations are not organically integrated, lacking sufficient relation among one another. They are uniformly applied ignoring individual characters of buildings. These laws and regulations sometimes seem to be obstractive designing a building. These problems are attributable to the peculiarity and the diversity of fires and the dependence on specifications regulated in the Building Code.