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doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7724-8_05-07
Fire Reconstruction and Hypothesis Validation using Comparison Points
A. Thiry1,a, M. Suzanne1,2, H. Bazin1 and A. Coppalle2
1Laboratoire Central de la Préfecture de Police, 39 B rue de Dantzig, 75015 Paris, France.
amailto:aurelien.thiry@interieur.gouv.fr
2CORIA, CNRS UMR 6614, Université de Rouen, France
ABSTRACT
The Central Laboratory of Police Prefecture of Paris (LCPP) started Research and Development activities in the fire modelling field in order to assess fire scenario simulation usefulness within the investigation framework in 2006. Basically, this work is intended to provide new tools to help investigators in their evaluation of several fire scenarios. The main aspect of the work is to develop a new method of semi-quantitative comparison between post-fire on-field observations and modelling results. This work is an application of both Fire Science Engineering and the guidance developed in reference [1]. The case studied was simple in terms of the localisation of the fire's origin, but the ignition source was not easy to confirm. For that reason, it was decided to use a modelling-assisted investigation to confirm the investigator's final hypothesis.
Keywords: Modelling, Fire investigation, Fire behaviour.
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