| Title |
A Study on the Prediction of Fire Behaviour with Ventilation Factor |
| Keywords |
Ventilation Factor ; Reduced-Scale Model ; Fire Behaviour ; Scaling Law |
| Abstract |
Fire behavior Prediction is a part of performance based design for fire resistance and is dependent of fire load and ventilation factor in fire model. To predict fire behavior, we performed various ventilation controlled fire tests -from 0.02 to 0.30- with the same fire load density in a 30% reduced-scale model of a standard ASTM enclosure.
In consequence, on the first, fire temperature is characterized with ventilation factor and decreasing opening areas results in higher peak temperatures and a faster decay phase. Second, heat fluid throughout compartment by increasing fire temperature results in higher temperatures in case of decreasing ventilation factor in same position. On the third, two models which have different opening setup for the same ventilation factor result in similar to fire behavior and lower temperature with facing openings in decay phase. |