Editorial: Special subject on the mechanical behavior of fire dynamics in high-rise buildings

• 来源期刊: 力学快报(英文版)
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（3）
• 页码范围: 61-62
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.1063/2.1403403

摘要

With rapid economic and social development in China,high-rise buildings have continuously sprung up since 2006.However,several big fire accidents in high-rise buildings such as the Beijing Television Cultural Center fire in 2009 and the Shanghai Jing'an District fire in 2010 etc.have claimed people's lives and caused huge amounts of economic and property losses,thus resulting in great social response.This circumstance has caused grave concern from the public and government.The hazards pose a serious fire safety risk issue for high-rise buildings and further stimulate the research needs in this regard.As compared to normal room fires,the fire behaviors in high-rise buildings have some new special features,including (1) the extensive use of external facade insulation materials bringing new fire safety issues,(2) special fire evolution and smoke transportation behavior due to complex building structures and boundary conditions,(3) a serious threaten to the structural safety of high-rise buildings by fires,and (4) crowd evacuation in highrise buildings in case a fire becomes a major safety problem.