How design fires can be used in fire hazard analysis

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Author	Search for: Yung, D. T.¹; Search for: Bénichou, N.¹
Affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
Format	Text, Article
Conference	Proceedings of the 5th Fire Risk and Hazard Assessment Research Application Symposium: 28 June 2000, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Subject	Design fires/Fire modeling; Fire
Abstract	Many countries have introduced, or are planning to introduce in the near future, performance/objective-based codes. In a performance/objective-based code, the level of safety provided to the occupants in a building by a particular fire safety design will be assessed by the use of engineering analysis of fire development and occupant evacuation. Central to this performance-based approach is the use of suitable design fires that can characterize typical fire growth in a fire compartment. This paper gives a description of how such design fires can help analyze fire hazards to the occupants of a building as a result of fire development, smoke movement, and occupant response and evacuation.
Publication date	2000-07-01
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NRC number	NRCC 44214 NRC-IRC-10017
NPARC number	20386126
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