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FIRE DYNAMICS IN FAÇADE FIRE TESTS, Measurement, modeling and repeatability

open access: yesApplications of Structural Fire Engineering, 2016
Presented is a comparison between full-scale façade tests where SP Fire 105 and BS 8414-1 were used regarding repeatability and the use of modelling to discern changes in the set-ups. Results show that the air movements around the test set-up (the wind) may have a significant impact on the tests and that the heat exposure to the façade surface will ...
Anderson, Johan   +3 more
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Computational fire modeling for aircraft fire research [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This report summarizes work performed by Sandia National Laboratories for the Federal Aviation Administration. The technical issues involved in fire modeling for aircraft fire research are identified, as well as computational fire tools for addressing those issues, and the research which is needed to advance those tools in order to address long-range ...
Nicolette, V. F.
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Real Fire And Fire Modeling. [PDF]

open access: yesFire Safety Science, 1989
The system fire research in Japan was started after World War II. One of the main objectives was the diagnosis of the strength remaining in buildings burnt out during the as against a future earthquake. The fire behavior in compartments and the structural behavior of building in the fully developed stage were studied by carrying out full scale fire ...
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Flame Detection for Video-based Early Fire Warning Systems and 3D Visualization of Fire Propagation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Early and accurate detection and localization of flame is an essential requirement of modern early fire warning systems. Video-based systems can be used for this purpose; however, flame detection remains a challenging issue due to the fact that many ...
Tsalakanidou, Filareti   +5 more
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Integration of a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Model Into a Regional Air Quality Forecasting System for Wildfire Events

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021
The objective of this study was to assess feasibility of integrating a coupled fire-atmosphere model within an air-quality forecast system to create a multiscale air-quality modeling framework designed to simulate wildfire smoke.
Adam K. Kochanski   +4 more
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The influence of thinning and prescribed burning on future forest fires in fire-prone regions of Europe

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2022
Climate change is expected to increase fire risk in many forested regions, posing a potential threat to forest functioning (i.e. carbon pools and fluxes). At the same time, expansion of the wildland-urban interface threatens to bring more and more people,
S S Rabin, F N Gérard, A Arneth
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The Impact of Fuel Treatments on Wildfire Behavior in North American Boreal Fuels: A Simulation Study Using FIRETEC

open access: yesFire, 2020
Current methods of predicting fire spread in Canadian forests are suited to large wildfires that spread through natural forests. Recently, the use of mechanical and thinning treatments of forests in the wildland-urban interface of Canada has increased ...
Ginny Marshall   +5 more
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The Rationale for a Safe Distance Between Fermenters for Biogas Production [PDF]

open access: yesBezpieczeństwo i Technika Pożarnicza, 2018
Introduction: The introduction to this paper deals with the question of defining fire-prevention distances for constructions in a modern energy enterprise operating on alternative energy sources, which can also simultaneously produce gas, electricity and
S.V. Pozdieiev   +5 more
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Modeling of fire exposure in facade fire testing

open access: yesFire and Materials, 2017
SummaryIn this paper, a comparative simulation study on 3 large‐scale facade testing methods, namely, the SP Fire 105, BS 8414‐1, and the ISO 13785‐2 methods, is presented. Generally good correspondence between simulations and experimental data has been found, provided that thermal properties of the facade material and heat release rates are known ...
J. Anderson   +3 more
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Three-dimensional analysis of reinforced concrete beam-column structures in fire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Published version copyright @ 2009 ASCE.In this paper a robust nonlinear finite-element procedure is developed for three-dimensional modeling of ...
Plank, RJ, Huang, Z, Burgess, IW
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