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Risk assessment of a timber frame building by using CRISP simulation
Author(s) -
Björkman Jouni,
Mikkola Esko
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/fam.770
Subject(s) - apartment , fire resistance , frame (networking) , engineering , forensic engineering , fire safety , smoke , architectural engineering , risk assessment , cross laminated timber , structural engineering , civil engineering , computer science , waste management , computer security , mechanical engineering , materials science , composite material
The fire risk assessment model CRISP2 was applied to a 4‐storey apartment building. The case building was an actual 4‐storey timber‐framed building. Partly predetermined design alternatives were used in sequential simulations. CRISP2 cannot take into account the frame‐material of the building in a satisfactory way, because the wall thickness, structural fire resistance or lining materials in the fire room cannot be modelled. It was found that adding smoke alarms almost halved the risk level. The risk levels 1–2×10 −5 obtained are not far from comparable levels of fire death statistics from Finland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.