Thermal characteristics of externally venting flames and their effect on the exposed façade surface
| Autor: | Eleni Asimakopoulou, Maria A. Founti, Dionysios I. Kolaitis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Fire test
Engineering H121 business.industry 0211 other engineering and technologies General Physics and Astronomy 020101 civil engineering Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry Structural engineering 0201 civil engineering Fire protection engineering Heat flux 021105 building & construction Heat transfer Thermal Emissivity General Materials Science Facade Safety Risk Reliability and Quality business |
| Zdroj: | Fire Safety Journal. 91:451-460 |
| ISSN: | 0379-7112 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.firesaf.2017.03.075 |
| Popis: | In a compartment fire, Externally Venting Flames (EVF) may significantly increase the risk of fire spreading to adjacent floors or buildings, especially when combustible insulation materials are installed on the building facade. An increasing number of recent reports suggest that existing fire engineering design methodologies cannot describe with sufficient accuracy the characteristics of EVF under realistic fire load conditions. In this context, a series of fire safety engineering design correlations used to describe the main EVF thermal characteristics, namely EVF centreline temperature and EVF-induced heat flux on the exposed facade surface, are comparatively assessed. Towards this end, measurements obtained in a medium- and a large-scale compartment-facade fire test are employed; aiming to broaden the scope of the validation study, predictions of the investigated correlations are further compared to measurements obtained in 6 large-scale fire tests found in the literature. It is found that the correlation proposed in EN1991-1–2 (Eurocode 1) for the estimation of the EVF centreline temperature is under-predicting the measured values in large-scale fire tests. In addition, it is concluded that estimation of the local flame emissivity should take into account the specific fuel type used in each case. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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