Journal
FIRE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 56, Issue 5, Pages 2315-2330Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-020-00982-2
Keywords
Japanese-style roof; Urban fires; Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires; Firebrands; Ignition
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- Intramural NIST DOC [9999-NIST] Funding Source: Medline
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Roof assemblies are known to be vulnerable to firebrands in urban and wildland-urban interface fires. In the 2016 urban fire in Japan (Itoigawa-City Fire), at least 10 structures were ignited by firebrand showers and three of these structures were ignited by firebrand penetration under roof tiles. In this study, the vulnerabilities of Japanese-style roof tile assemblies to firebrand exposures were investigated by using a continuous-feed firebrand generator with applied nominal wind speeds of 6 m/s and 9 m/s. It was observed that Japanese-style roof tile assemblies were more vulnerable than concrete flat, concrete profile, and terracotta flat roof tiles for an applied wind speed of 6 m/s. When the experiments were performed with debris placed underneath the roof tiles, penetrated firebrands ignited debris. Flaming ignition was observed under 9 m/s where flame was observed to protrude from the tiles in an effort to reach necessary oxygen for combustion.
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