External Fire Spread Analysis

Ruxandra Dârmon; Mircea Suciu

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AEF.21.33

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External Fire Spread Analysis

Abstract:

The fire safety regulations in Romania require that in case of a fire occurring into a building, it should be prevented to spread to any adjacent structure or neighbouring façade. Apart from the minimum prescribed distances between the buildings, there is no other benchmark or guidance for an approved calculation method to prove compliance with this provision. The British regulations have specified that the heat fluxes on the surfaces exposed to radiation from a fire within the adjacent buildings should not exceed a heat flux of 12.6 kW/m². The purpose of this article is to review some of the empirical calculation methods for the incident radion flux given in the international literature and to compare their results for a practical aplication.

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Advanced Engineering Forum (Volume 21)

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Ruxandra Dârmon*, Mircea Suciu

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Adjacent Facade, Cylindrical Flame Model, Incident Radiation Flux

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