Design Fires
Fire scenarios are often quantitatively described and analysed in a performance-based fire safety design. However, since the number of possible fire scenarios are more or less infinite, a quantitative analyse must be limited to representative fire scenarios, i.e., design fire scenarios.
The following publications provides guidance for selecting design fires and can be used by fire protection engineers doing analyses that involves design fires.
Initial Fires
In 1993 Stefan Särdqvist presented a report to be used as a guide when trying to determine what an initial fire will look like. It is a summary of a large number of full scale tests on different items and under various conditions performed at different laboratories. The results are available in his report, and are also available in a database.
Selecting Design Fires
Leif Staffansson describes a step-by-step working method for selecting design fires in his Selecting design fires, published 2010. The report also includes explanations of factors that affect the design fire, as well as relevant calculation methods and references to other relevant sources.
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