TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental and Numerical Investigation of a Room Fire in a Wooden-Frame Historical Building
AU - Tung, Shu Fen
AU - Su, Hung Chi
AU - Tzeng, Chun Ta
AU - Lai, Chi Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
Support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan ROC, through grant no. NSC 101-2221-E-006-260-MY2 for this study is gratefully acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - Fire safety is an important issue in all types of construction, especially in wooden-frame historical buildings. In this study, room fire experiments were conducted in a full-scale model storeroom with high fire load in a wooden historical building to explore fire growth and spread via heat release rates and indoor air temperatures. Numerical simulations mimicking the fire scenario were conducted using FDS software to predict fire features, and these findings were compared with the experimental results. The results showed that development trends during fire growth were aligned, but they displayed time differences. During the fully developed fire period, the heat release rates from the experiment were less than the predicted values. The reason for the low heat release rates in the experiment was that the collapse and stacking of fire loads were not effectively simulated.
AB - Fire safety is an important issue in all types of construction, especially in wooden-frame historical buildings. In this study, room fire experiments were conducted in a full-scale model storeroom with high fire load in a wooden historical building to explore fire growth and spread via heat release rates and indoor air temperatures. Numerical simulations mimicking the fire scenario were conducted using FDS software to predict fire features, and these findings were compared with the experimental results. The results showed that development trends during fire growth were aligned, but they displayed time differences. During the fully developed fire period, the heat release rates from the experiment were less than the predicted values. The reason for the low heat release rates in the experiment was that the collapse and stacking of fire loads were not effectively simulated.
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U2 - 10.1080/15583058.2018.1510999
DO - 10.1080/15583058.2018.1510999
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053063951
SN - 1558-3058
VL - 14
SP - 106
EP - 118
JO - International Journal of Architectural Heritage
JF - International Journal of Architectural Heritage
IS - 1
ER -