Improvement of Fire Safety Performance for Nursing Homes by Using Fireproof Curtains with a Water Film System

Su Hua Chiu; Charlene Wu; Chen Yu Chen; Ta Hui Lin; Shin Ku Lee

doi:10.3390/buildings12101590

Improvement of Fire Safety Performance for Nursing Homes by Using Fireproof Curtains with a Water Film System

Su Hua Chiu, Charlene Wu, Chen Yu Chen, Ta Hui Lin, Shin Ku Lee

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Nursing home residents often have impaired faculties, which limit their evacuation responses in light of accidents. Specifically, fire accidents can pose significant risks to both residents and property. In this study, we designed a water film cooling system to enhance the heat and smoke resistance of a fire retardant curtain without a fire resistance rating. The experimental results on a full-scale door/wall refractory furnace and smoke-barrier system showed that the proposed curtain had 1.5-h heat resistance properties, while the smoke control performance could meet the ISO 5925-1 requirement. Finally, we used Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) 6.0 to simulate an existing nursing home with this type of fireproof curtain setup for horizontal evacuation waiting space. The results show that our proposed water film cooling system can effectively inhibit the diffusion of smoke during the initial stage of a fire, creating a safe evacuation waiting zone for disadvantaged evacuees.

Original language	English
Article number	1590
Journal	Buildings
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101590
Publication status	Published - 2022 Oct

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Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction

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