scholarly journals FIRE SAFETY PLANNING FOR RESTORED HISTORIC WOODEN URBAN AREAS AIDED BY LOCAL CABLE NETWORK

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Yuji HASEMI
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Cable Network

Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics: Fire Safety Awareness for Gas Station in Dense Urban Areas With Wind Effects

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. K. Chow
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Wind Effect ◽  
Strong Wind ◽  
Gas Stations ◽  
Gas Station

Consequent to a big gas station fire in Macau and another recent one affected by a nearby explosion in a fireworks factory in China, there are concerns on the fire safety issues of gas stations in urban areas. Those two incidents were not too terrible but the situation would be much worse if there was strong wind, especially in a dense urban area where buildings are closely built together. There are many gas stations built within residential areas in Hong Kong. Wind-induced air movement is a transient phenomenon which depends not only on the wind speeds measured at some designated sites, but is also strongly affected by the surrounding environment. For a gas station located adjacent to a taller building, turbulent effects due to incident wind fields would be important. This is not just a safety problem of the gas station, nor for any single building. A risk management system should be worked out by the Authority in the estate district, suburb, or even the whole city. The problem must be considered carefully for cities with dense population and numerous highrise buildings. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a suitable tool for hazard assessment on the spreading of smoke and heat. In this paper, the wind-induced air flow in a gas station fire next to a building was studied by CFD. The CFD simulator selected is the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) version 3.01. Acoustic filtering technique was applied to remove the flow with high Mach number and large-eddy simulations (LES) were applied to model smaller turbulent scales. Different scenarios on the gas station position, building height and distance away from a vertical wall of the building were simulated. Wind effect was simulated by taking the incident air flow as a parabolic boundary layer. The results are very useful for working out risk management in case of accidents. Note that smoke or even flame will spread by following the wind-induced air motion.

scholarly journals Fire Safety Design in Building

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Maksum Tanubrata
Keyword(s):  
Fire Protection ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Building Structures ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Smoke Control ◽  
Fire Load ◽  
Partition Walls ◽  
Safety Design ◽  
Fire Safety Design

The main themes for fire safety planning may be described as follows ; Prevention of outbreak and growth of fire , Fire protection of Building structures, smoke control and escape planning. Fire load in a building can be roughly classified into 3 groups: (a). buildings materials, (b). furniture, and (c). daily goods. Building materials including linings, interior material of walls, ceilings, floors, partition walls, etc, and daily goods such as books, clothes, and so on.

The Petrochemical Park Fire Safety Planning Study Based on Fire Risk Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 1045-1051
Author(s):  
Xuan Ya Liu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Fire Risk Analysis ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Security Planning

According to the chemical industrial parks current development trend in China, the fire risks, fire safety situations and the existing problems of petrochemical parks have been widely surveyed. And the main basic contents of chemical industrial parks fire safety planning are described in the paper. Through the researches on fire safety planning of chemical industry park and its evaluation system, based on the security planning of the chemical park, the fire safety planning methods and planning procedure to improve the petrochemical industrial park fire prevention levels are proposed on the basis of fire risk analysis.

scholarly journals FIRE SAFETY PLANNING FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC DEPARTMENT STORE BUILDING AS CULTURAL ASSET

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (56) ◽  
pp. 207-210
Author(s):  
Hiroko KAZUSA ◽  
Yuji HASEMI ◽  
Shin-ichi TSUCHIYA ◽  
Yoshikazu MINEGISHI
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Department Store ◽  
Safety Planning

scholarly journals Visual Language-Aided Construction Fire Safety Planning Approach in Building Information Modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Numan Khan ◽  
Ahmed Khairadeen Ali ◽  
Si Van-Tien Tran ◽  
Doyeop Lee ◽  
Chansik Park
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Logic ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Safety Rule ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Job Site

Fires pose an enormous threat to human safety and many spectacular fires in under-construction buildings were reported over the past few years. Many construction sites only rely on fire extinguishers, as under-construction buildings do not contain a permanent fire protection system. Traditional safety planning lacks a justified approach for the firefighting equipment installation planning in the construction job site. Even though many government agencies made safety regulations for firefighting equipment installations, it is still a challenge to translate and execute these rules at the job site. Currently, the construction industry is devoted to discovering all the possible applications of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology in the entire phases of the project life cycle. BIM technology enables the presentation of facilities in 3-D and offers rule-based modeling through visual programming tools. Therefore, this paper focuses on a visual language approach for rule translation and a multi-agent-based construction fire safety planning simulation in BIM. The proposed approach includes three core modules, namely: (a) Rule Extraction and Logic Development (RELD) Module, (b) Design for Construction Fire Safety (DCFS) Module, and (c) Con-fire Safety Plan Simulation (CSPS) Module. In addition, the DCFS module further includes three submodules, named as (1) Firefighting Equipment Installation (FEI) Module, (2) Bill of Quantities (BoQs) for firefighting Equipment (BFE) Module, and (3) Escape Route Plan (ERP) Module. The RELD module converts the OSHA fire safety rule into mathematical logic, and the DCFS module presents the development of the Con-fire Safety Planning approach by translating the rules from mathematical logic into computer-readable language. The three sub-modules of the DCFS module visualize the outputs of this research work. The CSPS module uses a multi-agent simulation to verify the safety rule compliance of the portable firefighting equipment installation plan the system in a BIM environment. A sample project case study has been implemented to validate the proof of concept. It is anticipated that the proposed approach has the potential to helps the designers through its effectiveness and convenience while it could be helpful in the field for practical use.

Study on Fire Safety Planning in Chinese Petrochemical Industry Parks

2012 ◽  
Vol 260-261 ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
Han Bin Wan ◽  
Yin Xia Yun
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Petrochemical Industry ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Fire Disaster ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
The Future

In order to explore the regularity of fire station construction in domestic chemical industry park, the study reviewed the typical safety incidents in decade. Under the summary of characteristics of fire disaster, explosion, and leakage incidents, this article puts forward the methods for the construction of fire station system in chemical parks, especially the fire station construction standards, equipment requirements and the enhanced fire station. Hopefully, the study will be beneficial for the future development of fire station construction in chemical industry parks.

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