Among Cygnus' scientific cargo is a 3-D printer, a "Gecko Gripper" study, and a large-scale fire experiment.
We wished to simulate the conditions of a real savannah fire for fruits hanging on a tree, since safety and financial factors precluded a large-scale fire.
This paper proposes a novel FireGrid architecture, and describes the rationale behind this architecture and the research results of its application to a large-scale fire experiment.
Wind velocity and temperature fields over Kobe city which experienced a large-scale fire are numerically simulated by using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) technique based on a turbulence model.
Notably, this enables simulation of thermal boundary conditions experienced by materials or structures exposed to any source of heat – during a conventional fire test (e.g. standard furnace test), a large-scale fire test, a real fire, or some other thermal boundary conditions calculated using a fire model (e.g. zone or computational fluid dynamics model).
In this paper four large scale fire tests on the reinforced concrete slabs, under combined uni-axial in-plane and out-of-plane loading conditions with vertical restraint at four corners of the slabs, are presented.
For the mechanical properties and boundary conditions assumed, it is found that during fire the axial load may increase with a factor which, at least in the worst cases, can be close to the safety factor found from large scale fire tests.
At the beginning of Meiji era, there was a large scale of fire at Rinnō-ji and Futarasan shrine had also suffered from fire.
This paper presents selected results from the thermal environment around, and the thermal response of, a concrete column from a large scale structural fire test conducted in Tisova, Czech Republic, inside a four-storey concrete frame building, with concrete and composite deck floors.
As white settlements moved further west into drier areas, the first large scale fires were encountered.
