Generating Fire Dynamics Simulator geometrical input using an IFC-based building information model
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University of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources Engineering.
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2007
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Dimyadi, J.A.W.
Spearpoint, M.J.
Amor, R.
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Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is an advanced simulation tool used by fire engineers. The work described in this paper enables geometrical information to be transferred to the simulation tool using the IFC building information model. A parser tool has been developed to extract fire engineering related information from the IFC model and a web-based application has been created to generate FDS input files. Several test case geometries have been used to verify the current capability of the transfer process.
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Dimyadi J.A.W., Spearpoint M.J., Amor R. (2007) Generating Fire Dynamics Simulator geometrical input using an IFC-based building information model. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 12, pp. 443-457.
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fire engineering, computational fluid dynamics, geometry, building information modelling, industry foundation classes