SR257 Automatic water-based fire suppression system experiments - literature summary for model validation purposes (2018)

This is one in a series of reports produces as part of an overarching project to consider the structural building safety aspects of fire safety.

This report contains a summary of collated water-based fire suppression test data and guidance on the important parameters and variables for consideration when performing validation evaluations of models incorporating suppression algorithms.

The intended validation approach taken here is a posteriori, since the experimental data sets are published in literature. A limited discussion of the results of each set of experiments is included in this summary document in order to assist by limiting the influence of the experiment results of the user of the model of interest while they implement the model based on an estimate of the initial conditions of the selected fire experiment. Therefore a general description of the test set-up, varied parameters and the amount and location of the instrumentation used and reported on are included here.