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Document ID (ISN)22113
CIS number 75-11
ISSN - Serial title 0042-1084 - VFDB-Zeitschrift
Year 1974
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Kempe K.
Title Smoke and heat dissipation systems
Original title Rauch- und Wärmeabzugsanlagen [in German]
Bibliographic information Feb. 1974, Vol.23, No.1, p.8-16. Illus.
Abstract Commentary on the directives laid down by an expert committee of insurance underwriters for the construction and installation of smoke and heat dissipation systems to operate in the case of fire in one-storey industrial buildings. These directives lay down the principles, technical specifications and design rules to be observed: definitions of objectives, dimensions of buildings, dissipation systems, equivalent opening and other technical terms; calculation of minimum dimensions; automatic or manual control; fire baffles under the roof; fire curtains and sprinklers; construction, calculation and functioning of vents.
Descriptors (primary) fire; single storey factories; fire protection; heat dissipation; smoke vents
Descriptors (secondary) Germany (Federal Republic of); comment on directive; sprinkler systems; fireproof curtains
Document type -
Subject(s) Fire and explosions
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Fires