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Ventilation condition: Ventilation Factor v/s time

0.0700
Similar to Test 1, initial ventilation
was provided at ground floor by 0.0600
opening one glass window where as 0.0500
no initial ventilation was provided in 0.0400 Ignition source:
first and second floors. The initial
ventilation factor for ground floor Ventilation Factor 0.0300 Gasoline soaked polyurethane basket of size 0.15m x 0.15m x 0.3m
compartment being tested was 0.0200 was placed on sofa and electronic ignition controlled through
0.005m0.5. remote switch was used to ignite the fire.
In this test, ignition source for fire 0.0100 Fire load as ignition source = 21.12 MJ
was placed within the compartment 0.0000 Electronic ignition failed to ignite the fire and thus accelerator in
and was allowed to grow until it 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 form of waste papers were used to ignite the fire manually.
reached up to second level. The Time
ventilation factor changed during the Ignition source
test due to failure of façade panels; Ground Floor First Floor
Figure 28 shows the variation of
ventilation factor w.r.t time. Figure 28: Variation of ventilation factor w.r.t time at all floor levels for Test 2

Image 14: Ignition source placed within the basket for Test 2

(c) Fire Behavior (Growth, Flashover and Decay)

The test was carried out with internal ignition source to assess the
performance of glass and ACP assembly. The timeline of events
detailing the growth, flashover and decay of fire is presented
below.