Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

To provide fundamental knowledge about fire development and fire spread in large fire compartments, a project "Natural Fire" is established in "Sonderforschungsbereich 148" at the Technical University of Braunschweig. The full scale fire experiments are carried out in a fire room w i t h variable sizes between 500 m³ and 2000 m³, using the facilities of the Technical Research Centre of Finland. The first test series, which should determine the behaviour of the burning rate in dependence of the ventilation-conditions and the fire-load-configurations, is presented and the experimental results are discussed in this contribution.