Experimental study of natural roof ventilation in full-scale enclosure fire tests in a small compartment

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 523-535

  Merci, Bart ^a,b   Vandevelde, Paul ^b,c  

^a RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c WFRGent NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Full scale experiments; Natural ventilation; Small compartment fire

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; ENCLOSURES; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; ROOFS; SMOKE;

FULL SCALE EXPERIMENTS; HEAT RELEASE RATE; HORIZONTAL OPENING; NATURAL VENTILATION; SMALL COMPARTMENT FIRE; VENTILATION DESIGN;

VENTILATION;

EID: 35348958950     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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