@article{ref1,
title="Quantifying wind-driven firebrand production from roofing assembly combustion",
journal="Fire and materials",
year="2019",
author="Manzello, Samuel L. and Suzuki, Sayaka and Naruse, Tomohiro",
volume="43",
number="1",
pages="3-7",
abstract="Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Examples often in the international media reports are wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Other examples are large urban fires including those that have occurred after earthquakes. Firebrands are a key mechanism on how rapidly fires spread in urban fires and WUI fires. An experimental protocol has been developed to ignite full-scale roofing assemblies and quantify the degree of firebrand production during the combustion process. As wind is an important factor in firebrand generation, the experiments were conducted under a range of wind speeds at the Building Research Institute's (BRI) Fire Research Wind Tunnel Facility (FRWTF). A further unique aspect of this work is the experimental results are compared to firebrand size and mass distributions collected from an <i>actual</i> large-scale urban fire in Japan. <br><br>RESULTS of these experiments demonstrate that when only oriented strand board (OSB) is applied as sheathing, a significant number of firebrands collected from roofing assemblies were less than 1 g and 10 cm<sup>2</sup>. It was also observed that experiments on individual building component firebrand generation provided useful insights into actual urban fire firebrand generation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0308-0501",
doi="10.1002/fam.2661",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fam.2661"
}