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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"building fires"”.
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Calculation of smoke ventilation in building fires including atriums
… of smoke, heat and toxic gases are produced in a building fire. Due to air entrainment into the fire plume, an increasing volume of smoke is generated and spreads throughout the upper layer. The smoke forms a layer which deepens, filling the compartment while simultaneously reducing the …
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Application of computational fluid dynamics techniques to the analysis of building fires
… and recreate the complicated development of fires in buildings of a non-trivial geometry. It also includes comparative studies of different codes in a practical context and an examination of the limitations and adaptability of state of the art general purpose CFD code for fire modelling. This …
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Economic Welfare Of Firefighting Service In Detroit
… and spatial features can explain differences in building fire risk across Detroit. Using a complete Detroit fire incidents data set for the years 2008-2012, matched by census tract to American Community Survey (ACS) data for the same period, I employ kernel density mapping and spatial regression …
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Design, Simulation, and Hardware Construction of a 600 W Solid State DC Circuit Breaker for the DC House Project
… electrical equipment and wiring from causing building fires or other hazards from occurring. With more DC renewable sourced structures such as Cal Poly’s DC House, an inexpensive and reliable protection system is necessary to ensure safe energy transfer to the loads. One method of protecting a …
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The reconstruction of fires involving highly flammable hydrocarbon liquids
… liquids are involved in a high percentage of building fires, whether those fires are accidental or incendiary in origin. Their mere presence is often taken as proof of a particular fire cause by some investigators despite their limited knowledge of the behaviour of the vapours from these fuels …
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An experimental investigation of glass breakage in compartment fires
… achieve two-layer flows characteristic of normal building fires. The experimental data was collected from two test groups: the first for windows with their edges insulated from the fire (edge-protected) and the second for windows uniformly heated by the fire (edge-unprotected). The results of the …
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The transport of high concentrations of carbon monoxide to locations remote from the burning compartment
… of oxygen entrainment on the transport of CO in building fires, and to develop a procedure for estimating CO levels during a building fire. Experiments were performed with an insulated 1/4-scale room connected to the side of a 1/4-scale hallway forming a L-shape. Measurements of CO, unburned …
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Carbon Monoxide Generation in a Compartment With a Doorway During a Fire
… relevance since the primary cause of death in building fires is smoke inhalation, with the majority of deaths from carbon monoxide, CO, poisoning. An experimental study was conducted to examine upper-layer structure plus provide an initial characterization of a new compartment with a doorway. …
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Information selection and fusion in vision systems
… usage, quick localization of people in case of building fires, etc. To further save bandwidth, we select which cameras should be involved in a vision task and transmit observations only from the selected cameras. We provide an information-theoretically founded framework for general purpose …
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Carbon Monoxide Generation and Transport from Compartment Fires
… species generation and transport from enclosure fires. The species generation experiments were conducted with a half-scale ISO 9705 enclosure with three different ventilation conditions and heat release rates ranging from 50 kW to 500 kW. The transport study was conducted with a 6.1 m long …
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A Parametric Study of the Effect of Fire Source Elevation in a Compartment
… generation and transport from compartment fires. The experiments were performed in a half-scale ISO 9705 compartment and a 6.1 m long hallway connected in a head-on configuration. The buoyancy driven propane fire was provided by a burner and a continuous gaseous fuel supply system. All the …