This paper describes part of a research project that looks into the potential and challenge of using the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) open standard building information model in fire engineering design. In particular the paper describes work undertaken to share building geometry and other information with the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) fire simulation model. A commercially available bui...

Abstract The 3D model of a building was built to analyze the scene fire with reference real situation. process evolution simulated FDS. time fire, degree danger, temperature as well visibility analyzed. Architectural solutions that could be considered for prevention and in presented situations were also results simulations proposed scenarios showed found prevent spread fire. study provide base ...

A fire in an enclosed space, such as a room in a building, is generally called a compartment fire. To prevent the compartment fire, a sprinkler for first-aid fire-fighting is installed in rooms. However, it is difficult to determine the degree to which smoke generation and the fire spreading will be inhibited when sprinklers are on. In particular, demonstrating evacuation behavior assuming an a...

Soot concentrations are generally over predicted during the typical application of fire models. The addition of soot deposition and gravitational settling mechanisms to Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) results in improved predictions; however, those predictions are highly dependent upon assumptions of soot particle size. Large particle sizes appear to be needed to get FDS predictions on soot conce...

Further validation of Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) developed by NIST (USA) is performed using four smoke filling scenarios reported in the literature. Careful comparison is made to experimental data available for those scenarios. Performance of the code was found to vary considerably with complexity of scenario (e.g. geometry). While giving very reasonable results for a number of cases, averag...

A case is reported in which computer fire modeling was used to reevaluate a fire that killed three fire fighters. NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) was employed to model the fire in order to estimate the concentration of carbon monoxide present in the dwelling, which was the immediate cause of death of two of the fire fighters, who appear to have removed their face pieces in order to share a...

Fire test data of boats in rack storage are needed to establish more specific requirements for fire control and protection for this type of vessel in high piled rack storage configurations. Since there is no current large or full scale fire test data available, we have embarked upon testing fire and thermal properties of boat material, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite, by using Differen...

This study reports the results of simulating a fire that occurred in a semiconductor factory in Taiwan in 2005. Based on the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), this research investigated the risk factors involved in the semiconductor factory after undergoing the fire, and assessed the hazards caused by smoke. A factory fire of such magnitude shuts down operation and is damaging to the local society...

Fire resistance of building construction is essential part the design process. Thermal loading loadbearing elements can be obtained by using simplified standard fire curve or advanced numerical model. The paper shows process modelling in unprotected steel structure carpark Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. In Simulator (FDS) software, three scenarios are created to represent open, semi...