TY - GEN
T1 - Simulation Study on the Spreading of Fire-Induced Smoke in Natural-Ventilated Double-Skin Facade Buildings
AU - Shao, Jingjing
AU - Yeboah, Siegfried K.
AU - Zhu, Tiesheng
AU - Li, Yilin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Double-skin facade (DSF) is getting more and more popular these days due to its energy-saving potential and aesthetics. This particularity design brings certain difficulties to the fire protection of the building. Especially for natural-ventilated DSFs, the smoke flow between floors and DSF is more complicated depending on ventilation strategies. In order to gain more understanding and to acquire reliable data for future design, a naturally ventilated DSF building, Center of Sustainable Energy Technologies in Ningbo, was studied numerically. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis was carried out focusing on the characteristics of smoke distribution. Results showed that even though CSET building met the national fire safety requirement, it still failed to prevent fire spreading or ensure evacuation safety of occupancy. Simulations also suggested that opening up the DSF during fire would actually be more effective at preventing fire from spreading as well as ensuring occupancy evacuation.
AB - Double-skin facade (DSF) is getting more and more popular these days due to its energy-saving potential and aesthetics. This particularity design brings certain difficulties to the fire protection of the building. Especially for natural-ventilated DSFs, the smoke flow between floors and DSF is more complicated depending on ventilation strategies. In order to gain more understanding and to acquire reliable data for future design, a naturally ventilated DSF building, Center of Sustainable Energy Technologies in Ningbo, was studied numerically. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis was carried out focusing on the characteristics of smoke distribution. Results showed that even though CSET building met the national fire safety requirement, it still failed to prevent fire spreading or ensure evacuation safety of occupancy. Simulations also suggested that opening up the DSF during fire would actually be more effective at preventing fire from spreading as well as ensuring occupancy evacuation.
KW - Double-skin facade
KW - Simulation study
KW - Smoke control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082985220&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-9528-4_102
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-9528-4_102
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082985220
SN - 9789811395277
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 1011
EP - 1018
BT - Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, ISHVAC 2019 - Volume III
A2 - Wang, Zhaojun
A2 - Wang, Fang
A2 - Wang, Peng
A2 - Shen, Chao
A2 - Liu, Jing
A2 - Zhu, Yingxin
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, ISHVAC 2019
Y2 - 12 July 2019 through 15 July 2019
ER -
