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A burn-through model for textile membranes in buildings as a tool in performance based fire safety engineering

Lennqvist, Andreas LU and Andersson, Joel LU (2011) In LUTVDG/TVBB-5347-SE VBR920 20101
Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Risk Management and Safety Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.)
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Abstract
Using the characteristics of a fire scenario as a starting point, the authors illuminated the risks using textile membranes as a building material. The burning away of the membrane and the opening of a natural smoke evacuation was chosen for further studies. Using input from validation experiments the authors simulated these experiments in FDS to explore the agreement. There was uncertainties in finding the correct input data, especially determining the heat of combustion and the width of the pyrolysis range. Results showed that it is possible to use the burn away option in FDS to model the opening up of a hole in textile membranes. However, using textile membrane as a fire safety precaution for natural smoke evacuation is not reasonable.... (More)
Using the characteristics of a fire scenario as a starting point, the authors illuminated the risks using textile membranes as a building material. The burning away of the membrane and the opening of a natural smoke evacuation was chosen for further studies. Using input from validation experiments the authors simulated these experiments in FDS to explore the agreement. There was uncertainties in finding the correct input data, especially determining the heat of combustion and the width of the pyrolysis range. Results showed that it is possible to use the burn away option in FDS to model the opening up of a hole in textile membranes. However, using textile membrane as a fire safety precaution for natural smoke evacuation is not reasonable. Furthermore the report shows that it is possible to import complex geometries to FDS and use the burn away option as well. However, at the moment it is impossible to accurately simulate complex geometries for fire safety design purposes. (Less)
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author
Lennqvist, Andreas LU and Andersson, Joel LU
supervisor
organization
course
VBR920 20101
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
textile membranes, pyrolysis models, burn away option, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fire Dynamics Simulator, complex geometries, uncertainty.
publication/series
LUTVDG/TVBB-5347-SE
report number
5347
ISSN
1402-3504
language
English
id
1762618
date added to LUP
2011-01-14 11:56:34
date last changed
2020-12-03 14:26:07
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  abstract     = {{Using the characteristics of a fire scenario as a starting point, the authors illuminated the risks using textile membranes as a building material. The burning away of the membrane and the opening of a natural smoke evacuation was chosen for further studies. Using input from validation experiments the authors simulated these experiments in FDS to explore the agreement. There was uncertainties in finding the correct input data, especially determining the heat of combustion and the width of the pyrolysis range. Results showed that it is possible to use the burn away option in FDS to model the opening up of a hole in textile membranes. However, using textile membrane as a fire safety precaution for natural smoke evacuation is not reasonable. Furthermore the report shows that it is possible to import complex geometries to FDS and use the burn away option as well. However, at the moment it is impossible to accurately simulate complex geometries for fire safety design purposes.}},
  author       = {{Lennqvist, Andreas and Andersson, Joel}},
  issn         = {{1402-3504}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBB-5347-SE}},
  title        = {{A burn-through model for textile membranes in buildings as a tool in performance based fire safety engineering}},
  year         = {{2011}},
}