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Fire Safety in Buildings [PDF]

open access: yesJurnal Teknologi, 2012
Many building, in many countries, throughout the world have substandard fire safety features. This discussion is restricted to hotels and hostels, which are often the only types of buildings readily accessible by visitors to a country. It attempts to explore some of the difficulties in that many building regulatory agents in some countries are not
Kelvin, L. Walls
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Italian hybrid fire prevention code [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Fire safety of residential buildings and activities subjected to fire inspection is a difficult task, especially when the safety targets have to be adopted in built buildings or in activities that are going to be modified into more complex ones ...
Caciolai, Mauro   +5 more
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Modelling of propane emissions from a tank containing a liquefied phase

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
During gas-phase release from the tank containing liquefied gas, the phenomenon of boiling, heat transfer from moist air to the tank, heat exchange between shell, liquid, and vapor, and mass loss can be observed.
Salamonowicz Zdzisław   +1 more
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СONSTRUCTION AND THE ALGORITHM OPERATION OF THE LASER COMBINED FIRE DETECTOR

open access: yesПриборы и методы измерений, 2017
The point optical smoke detector is currently the most effective means of fire detection at the early stage of its occurrence. The urgent task for this type of detector is to increase its sensitivity to «black» smoke and ensure resilience to the effects ...
A. I. Kitsak   +6 more
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Investigation into the influence of impregnation on pine timber combustion using a cone calorimeter and large scale tests

open access: yesEngineering Structures and Technologies, 2011
Fire safety is one of the main requirements with respect to the regulations on the buildings involved into the category of human hazards. Human safety measures are applied equally to inhabitants, users, customers, spectators, etc., as well as to fire ...
Jerzy Gałaj   +2 more
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A computer model designed to evaluate the firefighting effectiveness of solid jet produced by water nozzle

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2018
The paper begins with a brief introduction and review of international research in the area of water jet streams and their effectiveness in firefighting. Then a general concept of a new numerical model for firefighting process using solid jet produced by
Jerzy Gałaj   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discussing the development of domestic and foreign fire protection technical regulation and fire protection technical standard systems

open access: yesJournal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2023
This paper reviews the composition, development, and operation mechanism of domestic and foreign fire protection technical regulations and standards. Considering the development and problems of China's fire protection standard system and fire protection ...
Xuan Sun, Na Cai, Wei Zhang
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Investigation into the influence of flame retardant additives on some fire properties of polyester materials applying small-scale testing techniques

open access: yesJournal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2013
In order to investigate the impact of some inorganic additive flame retardants on the selected fire properties of the materials based on polyester resin Polimal 1033 APy, small-scale fire testing techniques have been used. Seven samples have been studied:
Marzena Półka   +2 more
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Analysis of the Thermal Characteristics of Welding Spatters in SMAW Using Simplified Model in Fire Technology

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
In this study, the thermal characteristics of welding spatters were analyzed to predict the risk of fire spread in the shield metal arc welding. The mean diameters and the distribution shapes of the particles were investigated with the variation of the ...
Yeon Je Shin, Woo Jun You
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Experimental data from gas burner fires in residential structure with HVAC system

open access: yesData in Brief, 2023
The fire modeling community currently lacks full-scale experi- mental data from fires in residential-style structures with heat- ing, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Further, there is an absence of data quantifying the generation of H2O
Craig Weinschenk   +5 more
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