Impact of high-rise morphology on gas temperatures during fires
type: CreativeWork
description: With the development and use of fire sensitive construction materials and furnishings,and with the growing demand for high-rise development, there is an increasing need forimproved fire safety measures. Modern high-rise policies within the UK and USArequire a minimum fire safety standard. Current techniques employed to achieve thiswhich includes performance based approaches are the "passive" built-in approach e.g.compartmentation etc, and "active" approach e.g. Sprinklers etc. Considering thediversity of building morphologies of modern high-rises buildings made possible byimproved construction techniques and materials, this research investigates thepossibility of the building morphology becoming an additional consideration in the"passive" strategy for high-rise fire protection. The focus of this research is ongas/atmospheric temperatures while proposing the smoke element as a subject forfuture studies. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the morphology(geometry) of a "central core" high-rise floor on fire within a real life context withfocus on peak gas temperatures and its development during the fire growth stages. Inorder to achieve this aim, a set of objectives were developed based on critical analysisof existing literature. To reduce the scope of work the study focuses on central corehigh-rise types.The research methodology adopted for this study was based on the need for acontextual approach resulting in a robust ontological standpoint. To achieve theresearch aim, the study was designed to have an exploratory positivist experimentalapproach set within an interpretivist real life context. The case study method wasselected to meet the contextual and in-depth requirements of this study. Due to theimpracticality of erecting and burning a high-rise building for fire data extraction, thecase study was divided into two phases; a descriptive and exploratory phase to providethe contextual physical and thermal information respectively. Descriptive data wase…
abstract: With the development and use of fire sensitive construction materials and furnishings,and with the growing demand for high-rise development, there is an increasing need forimproved fire safety measures. Modern high-rise policies within the UK and USArequire a minimum fire safety standard. Current techniques employed to achieve thiswhich includes performance based approaches are the "passive" built-in approach e.g.compartmentation etc, and "active" approach e.g. Sprinklers etc. Considering thediversity of building morphologies of modern high-rises buildings made possible byimproved construction techniques and materials, this research investigates thepossibility of the building morphology becoming an additional consideration in the"passive" strategy for high-rise fire protection. The focus of this research is ongas/atmospheric temperatures while proposing the smoke element as a subject forfuture studies. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the morphology(geometry) of a "central core" high-rise floor on fire within a real life context withfocus on peak gas temperatures and its development during the fire growth stages. Inorder to achieve this aim, a set of objectives were developed based on critical analysisof existing literature. To reduce the scope of work the study focuses on central corehigh-rise types.The research methodology adopted for this study was based on the need for acontextual approach resulting in a robust ontological standpoint. To achieve theresearch aim, the study was designed to have an exploratory positivist experimentalapproach set within an interpretivist real life context. The case study method wasselected to meet the contextual and in-depth requirements of this study. Due to theimpracticality of erecting and burning a high-rise building for fire data extraction, thecase study was divided into two phases; a descriptive and exploratory phase to providethe contextual physical and thermal information respectively. Descriptive data wase…
author: Onyenobi, TC
language: en
date published: 2008
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:26:09Z
provider: U. of Salford
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: U. of Salford