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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2017.31.6.016

The Study on Compartment Fire Experiment According to Fire Load  

Kweon, Oh-Sang (Fire Research Institute, KICT)
Kim, Heung-Youl (Fire Research Institute, KICT)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.31, no.6, 2017 , pp. 16-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
In Korea, performance-based fire safety designs are being discussed to deal with the various risks of fire in complex and diverse types of structure. However, performance-based fire safety designs are not actively employed because it is difficult to estimate the fire characteristics related to the various factors in buildings. In this study, real scale fire tests were conducted based on fire severity levels and fire loads provided in He New Zealand Building Code, in order to use the results as guidelines and fundamental data for performance-based designs. In the real scale fire tests conducted in a 10MW full-scale calorimeter, wood cribs were placed in a $2.4(L){\times}3.6(W){\times}2.4(H)m$ mock-up of a compartment which had one $0.8(L){\times}2.0(H)$ opening for different fire loads and heating was continued until all of the wood cribs were burned down. The heat release rate started to increase rapidly 90 seconds after the wood cribs caught fire. In the test with a fire load level 1, the maximum heat release rate of 4743.4 kW was reached at 244 second. In the test with fire load level 2, a maximum heat release rate of 5050.9 kW was reached at 497 second. In the test with fire load level 3, a maximum heat release rate of 4446.9 kW was reached at 677 second.
Keywords
Fire Safety; Fire Load; Fire Experiment; Heat Release Rate; Fire Characteristic;
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