Application of Reduced-scale Model Experiments to the Fire Safety Research of Buildings

• HIMOTO Keisuke

  Building Research Institute

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 建築防火研究における縮尺模型実験の活用
• ケンチク ボウカ ケンキュウ ニ オケル シュクシャク モケイ ジッケン ノ カツヨウ

Abstract

One of the dominant scaling parameter in the fire safety research, Q^*, represents a Froude number of natural convection induced by a fire. Q^* has been used to model behavior of various fire-related phenomena including flame height of a turbulent diffusion flame, excess temperature and velocity of a fire plume and a ceiling jet, and even upper layer temperature of a fire room. In this article, examples of Froude modeling in reduced-scale experiments are overviewed. These include an investigation of the King's Cross Station Fire in 1987, a smoke flow experiment in the Himeji-jo castle, and an investigation of fire behavior of 96th floor of World Trade Center Tower 1 collapse in 2001.

Journal

• Journal of the Combustion Society of Japan

  Journal of the Combustion Society of Japan 56 (177), 205-211, 2014

  Combustion Society of Japan

Keywords

• Fire safety research of buildings
• Reduced-scale model experiment
• Similarity model

Details

• CRID: 1390001205199814272
• NII Article ID: 130006320682
• NII Article ID: 40020187631
• NII Book ID: AA11658490
• DOI: 10.20619/jcombsj.56.177_205
• ISSN: 24241687
• ISSN: 13471864
• NDL BIB ID: 025765435
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I025765435
• Text Lang: ja
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