Comparative evaluation method for fire safety design of large storage spaces

Zhenkun Wu, Haihang Li, Yaping He, Dechuang Zhou, Jian Wang

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[The design philosophy “the safety level of a performance-based designed building should not be lower than that of a prescriptive” with objectives of property protection and life safety was implemented in this paper. Three countervailing solutions were adopted to reduce fire risk in the 11664 m2 case storage. Besides, a virtual prescriptive storage with identical length-width ratio and similar ventilation conditions as the performance-based was designed for comparison. After designing the fire development event tree and simulating six fire scenarios using FDS, the two objectives were achieved as fire severity and risk of property loss of the performance-based design storage were found to be no higher than those of the prescriptive design and ASETs were greater than RSETs for all fire scenarios.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, February 10-14, 2014
    PublisherInternational Association for Fire Safety Science
    Number of pages12
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    EventInternational Symposium on Fire Safety Science -
    Duration: 10 Feb 2014 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Symposium on Fire Safety Science
    Period10/02/14 → …

    Keywords

    • fire prevention
    • fires
    • safety measures
    • building, fireproof

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