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Title:Defining the fire decay and the cooling phase of post-flashover compartment fires
Authors:ID Lucherini, Andrea (Author)
ID Torero, Jose L. (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:Logo ZAG - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute
Abstract:The current research study discusses and characterises the fire decay and cooling phase of post-flashover compartment fires, as they are often mixed up despite their important heat transfer differences. The two pha- ses are defined according to the fire heat release rate time-history. The fire decay represents the phase in which the fire heat release rate decreases from the ventilation- or fuel-limited steady-state value of the fully-developed phase to fire extinguishment. This phase is highly influenced by the fuel characteristics, ranging from fast decays for hydrocarbon and liquid fuels to slow decays for charring cellulosic fuels (wood). Once the fuel is consumed, the compartment volume enters the cooling phase, where the cooling in the gas-phase and solid-phase happens with significantly different modes and characteristic times. The thermal boundary conditions at the structural elements are then defined according to physical characteristics and dynamics within the compartment. The research study also underlines how the existing performance-based methodologies lack explicit definitions of the decay and cooling phases and the corresponding thermal boundary conditions for the design of fire-safe struc- tural elements under realistic fire conditions.
Keywords:razpadanje ognja, hlajenje, izgorevanje, naravna izpostavljenost ognju, dinamika požara, požari v oddelkih, požarno inženirstvo, učinkovitost, požarna varnost, fire decay, cooling, burnout, natural fire exposure, fire dynamics, compartment fires, structural fire engineering, performance-based, fire safety
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:12.09.2023
Publisher:Elsevier
Year of publishing:2023
Number of pages:11 str.
Numbering:Vol. 141, [article no.] 103965
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-17262 New window
UDC:62
ISSN on article:1873-7226
DOI:10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.103965 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:166069763 New window
Copyright:© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Note:Opis vira z dne 27. 9. 2023; Nasl. z nasl. zaslona;
Publication date in DiRROS:13.11.2023
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Record is a part of a journal

Title:Fire safety journal
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1873-7226
COBISS.SI-ID:87686659 New window

Document is financed by a project

Funder:EC - European Commission
Funding programme:H2020
Project number:952395
Name:Fire-safe Sustainable Built Environment
Acronym:FRISSBE

Funder:EC - European Commission
Funding programme:HE
Project number:101064840
Name:Fundamental advances for the fire safety of tall timber structures including the fire decay phase
Acronym:FIReSafeTimber

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Licensing start date:13.09.2023
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