Abstract
It can be difficult to come to agreement on a design fire for designing safety provisions, especially for smoke exhaust systems, while applying engineering performance-based fire codes. A new method is proposed for selecting the design fire for a typical building use. In addition to the common approach widely adopted in many places in the Far East, uncertainties in fire statistics and fire physics are considered by this new method. The Monte Carlo method is used to estimate such uncertainties. This new approach provides the Authority a rational and statistics-based method to work out design fires for buildings of different use.
© 2005 Center for Fire Science and Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
