Wooden Buildings by the Fire Damaged of Toxic Gases on Personnel Evacuation Influences

Abstract:

A wooden building includes historic buildings, villas, wayside pavilion, and so on. These buildings have one thing in common which is they are resistance fire capacity poor. The ignition point of wood is lower, and when encountering a fire the main structure of the building will be seriously damage. In most cases, these building need to be reconstruction. Also, in the initial stage of burning, smoke and toxic gases tend to hinder people from evacuating likely. Therefore, this paper is to explore monumental buildings of the “Grass Mountain Chateau" in Taiwan, which was burnt down in 2007. For a better understanding of significant parameters such as smoke and toxic gases after burning, and a further simulation of the damage degree of people evacuation, utilize fire simulation software the FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) of NIST ( U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology Association Fire Laboratory) to analyze the wooden building of the case on the fire. Hopefully, to provide advices on fire prevention of wooden buildings and people evacuation by supplying quantitative data of the simulation and analysis, and to decrease the loss of buildings to the minimum and prevent casualties.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 680)
• Pages: 257-263
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.680.257
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Cherng Shing Lin, Chia Chun Yu, Te Chi Chen, Shih Cheng Wang, Liang Yi Shen
• Keywords: Grass Mountain Chateau, Smoke, Wooden Construction

References

[1] H.Y. Chen, L.S. Wu: Fire Science, TINGMAO CO., Ltd., Taipei, 2006, pp.4-8, pp.5-3, pp.5-6.

[2] C.T. Tsai: Wood Modification, National Chiayi University Department of Wood Based Materials and Design, handout, (2009).

[3] W.K. Chow: Study on the Flashover Criteria for Compartmental Fires, Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 16(5) (1998), pp.95-106.

[4] C.M. Fleischmann: Backdraft phenomenon, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, NIST-GCR-94-646, (1994).

[5] R.G. Rehm and H.R. Baum: The Equations of Motion for Thermally Driven, Buoyant Flows, Journal of Research of the NBS, Vol. 83 (3) (1978), pp.297-308.

DOI: 10.6028/jres.083.019

[6] K.B. McGrattan, R.G. Rehm, and H.R. Baum: Fire-Driven Flows in Enclosures, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 110 (2) (1994), pp.285-291.

DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1994.1025

[7] H.R. Baum, K.B. McGrattan and R.G. Rehm: Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation of Fire Phenomena, Fire Safety Science – Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium, Canada, (1994), pp.185-193.

DOI: 10.3801/iafss.fss.4-185

[8] K. McGrattan, S. Hostikka and J. Floyd: Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 5) User's Guide, NIST Special Publication 1019-5, National Institute of Standards and Technology, (2010).

DOI: 10.6028/nist.sp.1019-5

[9] T. Korhonen and S. Hostikka: Fire Dynamics Simulator with Evacuation: FDS + Evac Technical Reference and User's Guide, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, (2010).

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_8