This report summarises the results of a project which was conceived to assess the impact of different fires on the level of safety in a timber structure. The means of achieving this was to measure the response of a number of timber elements to a range of fires in a furnace and to identify and […]
Archives: Research projects
Ventilation of fire gases in a stairwell
In an experimental investigation the effects of fire gas ventilation of a four-storey stairwell were studied. The ventilation was performed through an opening in the top and a door opening at the bottom of the stairwell, after a fire duration of 10 minutes. In the experiments were mesured gas temperature, visibility and fire gas concentrations […]