{"title":"A review: The analysis of fires in Chinese historic building and research progress on the fire protection","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.tsep.2024.102850","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Historic buildings have significant cultural, scientific, and aesthetic value, and show the accomplishments of past eras. Unfortunately, many historic buildings are being destroyed by fires across the world. Currently, wooden historic building fires occur frequently in China without effective fire control measures. To clarify the current characteristics of these buildings in China, the present work comprehensively investigates fire disaster data from the past ten years and then discusses the main causes of fires and their fire characteristics. In addition, the research progress on the corresponding fire protection, damage evaluation, restoration, and prospect are also discussed. The analysis has concluded that the primary causes of fires are related to electrical factors, careless use of fire, and arson. Fire protection measures and management suggestions are then provided for Chinese wooden historic buildings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23062,"journal":{"name":"Thermal Science and Engineering Progress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Thermal Science and Engineering Progress","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451904924004682","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENERGY & FUELS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Historic buildings have significant cultural, scientific, and aesthetic value, and show the accomplishments of past eras. Unfortunately, many historic buildings are being destroyed by fires across the world. Currently, wooden historic building fires occur frequently in China without effective fire control measures. To clarify the current characteristics of these buildings in China, the present work comprehensively investigates fire disaster data from the past ten years and then discusses the main causes of fires and their fire characteristics. In addition, the research progress on the corresponding fire protection, damage evaluation, restoration, and prospect are also discussed. The analysis has concluded that the primary causes of fires are related to electrical factors, careless use of fire, and arson. Fire protection measures and management suggestions are then provided for Chinese wooden historic buildings.
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Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (TSEP) publishes original, high-quality research articles that span activities ranging from fundamental scientific research and discussion of the more controversial thermodynamic theories, to developments in thermal engineering that are in many instances examples of the way scientists and engineers are addressing the challenges facing a growing population – smart cities and global warming – maximising thermodynamic efficiencies and minimising all heat losses. It is intended that these will be of current relevance and interest to industry, academia and other practitioners. It is evident that many specialised journals in thermal and, to some extent, in fluid disciplines tend to focus on topics that can be classified as fundamental in nature, or are ‘applied’ and near-market. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress will bridge the gap between these two areas, allowing authors to make an easy choice, should they or a journal editor feel that their papers are ‘out of scope’ when considering other journals. The range of topics covered by Thermal Science and Engineering Progress addresses the rapid rate of development being made in thermal transfer processes as they affect traditional fields, and important growth in the topical research areas of aerospace, thermal biological and medical systems, electronics and nano-technologies, renewable energy systems, food production (including agriculture), and the need to minimise man-made thermal impacts on climate change. Review articles on appropriate topics for TSEP are encouraged, although until TSEP is fully established, these will be limited in number. Before submitting such articles, please contact one of the Editors, or a member of the Editorial Advisory Board with an outline of your proposal and your expertise in the area of your review.