How design fires can be used in fire hazard analysis

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019830015147
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
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	2002-07-01
In	Fire Technology 38, no. July 3 (1 July 2002): 231–242.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NRC number	NRCC 44511 NRCC 14001
NPARC number	20378799
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