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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"fire scenario"”.
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Fire Scenario Development for South African Hospitals
Hospital fires continue to present a serious threat to life safety, particularly in developing countries such as South Africa (SA), where outdated infrastructure, limited maintenance, and unreliable fire protection systems compromise effective fire safety management. Hospitals are uniquely …
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Assessment of Passive Fire Protection on Steel-Girder Bridges
… US are severely damaged or suffer collapse from fires at significant rates, even when compared to other hazards such as earthquakes. Fire-induced bridge collapses are perpetuated by the general lack of installed fire protection systems. Therefore, new materials and applications are needed to …
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Decision making model of behaviour in office building fire evacuations
… a model of decision making in office building fire evacuations. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire and short film. The questionnaire contained separate fire scenarios that corresponded to the order of cue presentation in the film. For each fire scenario, participants in the study …
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Development of Potential Remote Coal Mine Fire Response Measures: Use of Multiple Passive Source Tracers and Simulation of High Expansion Foam Flow in Simulated Gob Material
… potential improvements to current coal mine fire response measures. In the event of a fire scenario, indirect testing and analysis of the exhausting air is needed to characterize changes in the fire. The application of multiple passive source tracers provides improved detail of complex …
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Response of high strength concrete columns under fire-induced biaxial bending
Reinforced concrete (RC) columns, under fire conditions, can experience biaxial bending which can arise due to eccentricity in loading, uneven spalling, or due to significant thermal gradients generated through 1-, 2-, or 3-sides of fire exposure. High strength concrete (HSC) columns are especially …
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Peridynamic modeling of fire damage in composites
… predictions of composite materials responses in fire environments are important in terms of safety. This reality problem can be simplified as a thermal fluid-structure interaction problem in terms of mathematical modelling. The thermo-fluid model is used to simplify the physical properties of …
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Mattress fires and their effect on the destruction and distribution of remains in a house-fire setting
… owing their presence to both the relatively high fire death rate in the United States, and the continued (and mistaken) belief that human remains can be rendered unidentifiable or completely destroyed through burning. In many cases it is necessary to recover and identify remains from residential …
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Fire modelling of passenger trains
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Train fires continue to pose a significant threat both internationally and in South Africa, particularly with the increasing prevalence of emerging hazards such as lithium-ion battery devices carried by passengers. With the introduction of the new X’Trapolis Mega fleet, it is …
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Computational Study of Highway Bridges Structural Response Exposed to a Large Fire Exposure
The exposure from a localized vehicle fire has been observed to produce excessive damage onto highway bridge structural elements including complete collapse of the infrastructure. The occurrence of a fire beneath a bridge can lead to significant economic expense and loss of service even if the …
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Integrated probabilistic risk assessment (I-PRA) methodology and computational platform for fire PRA of nuclear power plants
… science of accident causation into plant risk scenarios and provides a feasible solution for adding realism to the plant risk estimations. In I-PRA, the underlying failure mechanisms associated with the areas of safety concern in NPPs are simulated in separate modules and are integrated with …
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Hypoxic immunomodulation results in increased disease risk and altered behavior via non-canonical pathways
… mechanism. Next, we examined a real-life scenario in which hypoxic conditions have been observed such as that displayed in obesity or following chronic high-fat diet (HFD) intake. In this study, mice were fed a HFD from weaning for 1, 3 or 6 weeks. Similar to hypoxia, mice displayed …
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Fire safety evaluation of multifunctional buildings - Special emphasis on antagonistic attacks and protection of sensitive areas
… new, not previously well analyzed problems for fire safety. A method for selection and evaluation of fire scenarios in multifunctional buildings has been developed. The evaluation method is based on the performance-based design approach, using scenario analysis, and accounts for specific …
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Ανάλυση της απόκρισης σύνθετων πολυμερών υλικών υπό συνθήκες φωτιάς. Εφαρμογή σε αεροπορικές κατασκευές
The current dissertation, titled “Fire Response of Composite aerostructures” deals with a crucial subject of the aeronautics industry that is the fire response of composite aerostructures, more specifically the issue of interest in this work is the fuselage fire burnthrough from an external liquid …