Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Journal of Information Technology in Construction
ITcon Vol. 12, pg. 443-457, http://www.itcon.org/2007/29
Generating fire dynamics simulator geometrical input using an IFC-based building information model
| submitted: | March 2007 | |
| revised: | September 2007 | |
| published: | October 2007 | |
| editor(s): | Lee G | |
| authors: | Johannes A W Dimyadi AstraVision-Solutions, Auckland, New Zealand email: jdimyadi@gmail.com Michael Spearpoint, New Zealand Fire Service Commission Senior Lecturer Department of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand email: michael.spearpoint@canterbury.ac.nz Robert Amor, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand email: trebor@cs.auckland.ac.nz | |
| summary: | Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is an advanced simulation tool used by fire engineers. The work described in this paper enables geometrical information to be transferred to the simulation tool using the IFC building information model. A parser tool has been developed to extract fire engineering related information from the IFC model and a web-based application has been created to generate FDS input files. Several test case geometries have been used to verify the current capability of the transfer process. | |
| keywords: | Fire engineering, computational fluid dynamics, geometry, building information modelling, Industry Foundation Classes. | |
| full text: | (PDF file, 0.455 MB) | |
| citation: | Dimyadi J A W, Spearpoint M and Amor R (2007). Generating fire dynamics simulator geometrical input using an IFC-based building information model, ITcon Vol. 12, pg. 443-457, https://www.itcon.org/2007/29 |