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The Real Scale Fire Test for Fire Safety in Apartment Housing  

Yoo, Yong-Ho (한국건설기술연구원 화재안전연구실)
Kweon, Oh-Sang (한국건설기술연구원 화재안전연구실)
Kim, Heung-Youl (한국건설기술연구원 화재안전연구실)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.23, no.5, 2009 , pp. 57-65 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was intended to conduct a Real-scale fire test to predict the fire behavior by unit space at the apartment building where a huge casualties and injuries are likely. After setting the inflammables inside the house, the test aimed to identify the fire characteristics to each unit item was carried out. The house was divided into 4 unit space such as kitchen, living room, bedroom and a study for a real scale fire test. As a result, bedroom reached to flashover state in 5minutes after setting the fire, indicating a rapid fire growth such as 7433.3kW of maximum thermal emissivity, 578.6ppm of carbon monoxide, 1.25ppm of carbon dioxide and $1,350^{\circ}C$ of maximum indoor temperature. Particularly, the fire growth was made up to critical temperature which might cause a severe damage to the people within 3minutes, if the fire were not extinguished at inflammable space at the early stage of fire, which stressed the need of early response. The result of a real scale fire test could be compared with the outcome of expanded simulation test and used in predicting the fire spread at the space for different use.
Keywords
Fire; Real scale fire test; Fire growth;
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