- 著者
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横井 鎮男
- 出版者
- Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering
- 雑誌
- 日本火災学会論文集 (ISSN:05460794)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.15, no.2, pp.38-51, 1966 (Released:2013-08-21)
- 参考文献数
- 4
If the fire spreads from one floor to upstairs in a building, both floors will be enveloped in the flame. Suppose that the space of both floors are communicated with stairs opening. The author has had a question whether, in this case, one common neutral layer appears to both floors or neutral layers appear in each floor respectively. After the big fire broke out in Tōkyū Kaikan in Tokyo, 10th April 1965, the author inspected the state after the fire. This fire broke out in the 7th floor and soon it spread to the 8th floor. Judging from the track of the smoke, attached on the wall of the building, the author found out that neutral layers existed in both floors respectively.After that, the author attempted to calculate the positions of the neutral layers with a brief model building expressed in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2. This building has a window in each floor. and both floors are communicated with a stair case, whose horizontal opening area is S.The results of calculation gave the following conclusions :(1) The positions of the neutral layers depend on the position and size of the window, the room temperature, the ratio of the area of the horizontal opening of the stair to that of the floor.(2) As the value of this ratio increases, the position of the upstairs’ neutral layer drops down and that of the downstairs’ rises. If this value of ratio exceeds a certain value, the neutral layer does not exist in upper floor but it looks as if it existed in the lower floor.(3) As the value of this ratio approaches 1, this virtual neutral layer nearly coincides with the neutral layer of the lower floor. In this case, it looks that a common neutral layer exists to both floors.