Test One: The ‘Uncontrolled’ Fire
Date
14/11/2007Author
Abecassis Empis, Cecilia
Cowlard, Adam
Welch, Stephen
Torero, Jose L
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Abstract
The first of the Dalmarnock Fire Tests was a post-flashover compartment fire experiment
held on July 25th, 2006, in a two-bedroom single-family flat on the 4th floor of the 23-
storey reinforced concrete tower in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, where the tests were held.
The main experimental compartment was a fully-furnished living room/office space,
instrumented with a high density of fire- and structural-monitoring sensors where a fire
was allowed to develop freely to post-flashover conditions. A detailed description of the
set-up of this test, including compartment layout, fuel and ventilation conditions and
specifics of the monitoring sensors can be found in Chapter 2. Major events throughout
the 19 min fire are reported followed by a thorough characterisation of the fire using
sensor information. The characterisation of Test One provides a platform with potential
for analytical and computational fire model validation.
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