Implementing a glass fracture module in the BRANZFIRE zone model

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dc.contributor.authorParry, R.
dc.contributor.authorWade, C.A.
dc.contributor.authorSpearpoint, M.J.
dc.date.accessioned2007-10-04T02:23:44Z
dc.date.available2007-10-04T02:23:44Z
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractA glass fracture routine has been successfully implemented in the BRANZFIRE zone model, based largely on the heat transfer model developed by Sincaglia and Barnett and the fracture criterion of Pagni and Joshi. A second implementation of the model has been successfully created as a spreadsheet. The BRANZFIRE implementation has been compared against an existing glass fracture model, BREAK1 and against a series of experiments. The BRANZFIRE glass fracture model has been found to consistently predict marginally later fracture times than BREAK1 over a range of simulations. BRANZFIRE’s fracture time prediction compared well with the experimental results. A Monte Carlo based sensitivity analysis found that fracture strength was the most important input variable, though this is largely attributable to the large standard deviation of the probability distribution used for this input.en
dc.identifier.citationParry, R., Wade, C.A., Spearpoint, M.J. (2003) Implementing a glass fracture module in the BRANZFIRE zone model. Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, 13(3), pp. 157-183.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/487
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Civil Engineering.en
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectfire modellingen
dc.subjectverification and validationen
dc.subjectglass fractureen
dc.subjectMonte Carloen
dc.subjectBRANZFIREen
dc.subject.marsdenFields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::290800 Civil Engineering::290804 Construction engineeringen
dc.titleImplementing a glass fracture module in the BRANZFIRE zone modelen
dc.typeJournal Article
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