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Fire Risk in the Built Environment: Design, Simulation and Innovative Safety Measures

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 4610

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Siu Ming Lo

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Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Interests: fire safety engineering; spatial planning for pedestrian flow traffic and evacuation modeling
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Prof. Dr. Jian Ma

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Department of Safety Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
Interests: crowd dynamics; pedestrian simulation and control
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce this Special Issue of Buildings, which will focus on fire risk in the built environment: design, simulation, and innovative safety measures. To assure fire safety in our built environment, we attempt to reduce the likelihood of unwanted fire ignition, minimize the rate of fire development, control the spread of fire and smoke, evacuate the occupants, and rescue the people at risk. To achieve this, we may need to investigate: (i) the science of fire development and spread, and the chemistry of combustion; and (ii) the people’s behavioral reaction in case of fire and the relating management issues.

This Special Issue will provide insight into some of the latest developments in fire risk by presenting state-of-the-art research, developments, and innovations. Original contributions from academia on experimental, numerical, and analytical research as well as from practice on fire risk design concerning fire dynamics, numerical simulations, building evacuation, rescue, smart fire protection measures, new fire protection materials, fire risk management as well as fire protection solutions, experiences, and perspectives are encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Siu Ming Lo
Prof. Dr. Jian Ma
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • fire risk analysis
  • safety design
  • innovative safety measures
  • evacuation
  • safety management
  • fire dynamics
  • fire protection materials
  • human behavior in fire

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Improvement of Fire Safety Performance for Nursing Homes by Using Fireproof Curtains with a Water Film System
by Su-Hua Chiu, Charlene Wu, Chen-Yu Chen, Ta-Hui Lin and Shin-Ku Lee
Buildings 2022, 12(10), 1590; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101590 - 02 Oct 2022
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Nursing home residents often have impaired faculties, which limit their evacuation responses in light of accidents. Specifically, fire accidents can pose significant risks to both residents and property. In this study, we designed a water film cooling system to enhance the heat and [...] Read more.
Nursing home residents often have impaired faculties, which limit their evacuation responses in light of accidents. Specifically, fire accidents can pose significant risks to both residents and property. In this study, we designed a water film cooling system to enhance the heat and smoke resistance of a fire retardant curtain without a fire resistance rating. The experimental results on a full-scale door/wall refractory furnace and smoke-barrier system showed that the proposed curtain had 1.5-h heat resistance properties, while the smoke control performance could meet the ISO 5925-1 requirement. Finally, we used Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) 6.0 to simulate an existing nursing home with this type of fireproof curtain setup for horizontal evacuation waiting space. The results show that our proposed water film cooling system can effectively inhibit the diffusion of smoke during the initial stage of a fire, creating a safe evacuation waiting zone for disadvantaged evacuees. Full article
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Thermal Characteristics of Fireproof Plaster Compositions in Exposure to Various Regimes of Fire
by Marina Gravit, Daria Shabunina, Sergey Antonov and Andrey Danilov
Buildings 2022, 12(5), 630; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12050630 - 09 May 2022
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The problems of the fire safety of oil and gas facilities are particularly relevant due to the increasing complexity of technological processes and production. Experimental studies of steel structures with three different types of plasters are presented to determine the time taken to [...] Read more.
The problems of the fire safety of oil and gas facilities are particularly relevant due to the increasing complexity of technological processes and production. Experimental studies of steel structures with three different types of plasters are presented to determine the time taken to reach the critical temperature and loss of bearing capacity (R) of the sample, as a result of reaching a rate of deformation growth of more than 10 mm/min and the appearance of the ultimate vertical deformation. The simulation of the heating of steel structures showed a good correlation with the results of the experiment. The consumption of the plaster composition for the steel column was predicted, which allowed a 38% reduction in the consumption of fireproofing. It was found that to obtain the required fire resistance limit, it is necessary to consider the fire regime and apply plaster compositions with a thickness of 30–35 mm, depending on their thermal characteristics. The dependence of thermal conductivity and temperature on density is obtained, showing that the use of plaster compositions with a density of 200 to 600 kg/m3 is optimal to ensure a higher fire resistance limit. It is shown that the values of thermal conductivity of plaster compositions at 1000 °C are higher by 8–10% if the structure is exposed to a hydrocarbon fire regime. It is shown that the values of the heat capacity of plaster compositions at 1000 °C are higher by 10–15% if the structure is exposed to a standard fire regime. Full article
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