Characterising a Design Fire for a Deliberately Lit Fire Scenario

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Characterising a Design Fire for a Deliberately Lit Fire Scenario

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Deliberately lit fires make up over 15% of all fires in New Zealand buildings yet they are typically omitted from the design brief for fire engineering purposes. This report examines where deliberately lit fires should be included as part of the fire engineering design by examination of all deliberately lit fires recorded in the New Zealand Fire Incident Reporting System (NZ FIRS) between the years 1996 and 2006. The main types of buildings identified where consideration of deliberately lit f...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2008

Creator

Richards, Paul Leonard Edward

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1779

Related subjects

Arson / Accelerant / Design Fire / Petrol / Fire Scenario / Deliberately Lit

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