Brandforsk initiated a preliminary study that was reported in 2010 and in it it was clear that the level of knowledge about residential fires is too low. Above all, there was a lack of information and analysis of which individuals are affected and which behaviors cause fires where people are injured or killed. Annually, an […]
The increased number of tall timber building involves new fire safety challenges. In increasingly tall buildings the potential consequences of large fire spread and collapse are increasingly severe. This project focuses on these challenges.
Environmental issues such as climate change and scarcity of resources have forced the development of alternative fuel vehicles. Many incidents involving alternative fuel vehicles have occurred especially in the past decade, most of which referred to compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied petroleum gases (LPG) and electric battery vehicles. In comparison to traditional vehicles, the fire […]
Traditional methods for protecting structures in the event of a fire usually consist of passive systems such as cladding, fire protection painting and oversizing. Today’s regulations provide sparse instructions and opportunities on how active systems such as sprinklers and fire gas ventilation can be used to limit the spread of fire and maintain load-bearing capacity. […]
The interaction between fire smoke and light sour¬ces is a critical part when visibility is estimated and a factor that is in principle always simplified because of its complexity and requirements on computer hard¬ware. However, computer hardware has progressed tremendously over the past decade and it is now possible to do this in real time […]
Hypoxic air systems or ORS (oxygen reductions systems) are used to reduce the occurrence of ignition and possibly to reduce the fire growth by means of a lower oxygen level in the ambient air. Usually a system with an oxygen content of about 15% is installed as a compromise between the level of fire protection […]
There is a large interest in the possibilities in storing produced energy that is not needed at that particular moment or to store energy when the cost for production of electricity is low. For this reason, different types of energy storage systems are used. With a fast development of new technologies and new forms of […]
Lack of fire technical function in building technical detail solutions is often a strong contributing factor to the spread of fire. Several incidents in recent years clearly show that building systems with cavities can have a major impact on the course of the fire and cause major property damage in all types of buildings.
Facade fires do not occur often (compared to other major structure fires) but in recent years there have been a number of spectacular facade fires in high-rise buildings such as the one in Grenfell Tower in London. Fires in under-ventilated spaces can cause flames to spill out of window openings that penetrate the facade, which […]
The open source CFD code FireFOAM has been verified and validated against analytical solution and real fire tests. The verification showed that FireFOAM solves the three modes of heat transfer appropriately. The validation against real fire tests yielded reasonable results. FireFOAM has not been validated for a large set of real fires, which is the […]