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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2018.32.6.055

Measurements of the Heat Release Rate and Fire Growth Rate of Combustibles for the Performance-Based Design - Focusing on the Plastic Fire of Commercial Building  

Jang, Hyo-Yeon (R&D Laboratory, Korea Fire Institute)
Nam, Dong-Gun (R&D Laboratory, Korea Fire Institute)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.32, no.6, 2018 , pp. 55-62 More about this Journal
Abstract
To improve the prediction result with enhanced reliability of domestic Performance-Based Design (PBD), actual scale fire tests were carried out on products made of plastics from sales facility combustibles. The commercial buildings were separated into single and multiple combustibles for the experimentation of fire spread caused by the sales shelves where the various combustible materials are displayed. A according to the maximum heat release rate, exposed area and weight of the combustible material, the results revealed a linear relationship of as 93% and 89%. In addition, analysis of the gas concentrations for various combustibles showed that $CO_2$ has a linear relationship, whereas the CO concentration indicated exponential function. These results can be applied to reliable fire source information in PBD of plastic fire source in commercial buildings. This may be applied as fire source information representative of a plastic fire in commercial buildings through additional experiment using the area of the shelf in actual commercial buildings.
Keywords
Performance-based design (PBD); Fire simulation; Fire dynamics simulator (FDS); Commercial building;
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