FIRE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT VIA LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND REPLICA

Abstract

A Petroleum tank was exposed to a fire causing some damages at different areas. In this study, some samples were collected from this tank at different areas. Fire assessment of the fuel tank was done via laboratory experiments and replica test. Laboratory experiments were done on pieces from the tank to simulate the actual fire temperatures and cooling rates. Four different temperatures were used for testing process which are 1000, 850, 738 and 700 ̊ C for heating and cooling in furnace, air and water in each case. The results showed the suitability of fire assessment via comparisons of the in-situ replica and the laboratory specimens.