LOCALIZATION OF GROUND, CROWN, AND COMBINED FOREST FIRES WITH THE USE OF A BARRIER STRIP

A comparative analysis of the results of experimental investigations on determination of the conditions necessary and suffi cient for the localization of ground, crown, and combined forest fi res with the use of a barrier strip of moistened forest materials has been performed. The rational volumes of water used for the formation of such a strip in front of a forest fi re and its sizes were determined. Different variants of localization of fl ame combustion and thermal decomposition of forest combustible materials depending on the action of an air fl ow (wind) on them were analyzed.
   
Author:  A. O. Zhdanova, I. S. Voitkov, G. V. Kuznetsov, I. R. Khasanov,b N. E. Shlegel′, and N. P. Kopylov
Keywords:  ground, crown, and combined forest fi res, forest combustible materials, hotbed of fi re, barrier strip, fi re extinguishing
Page:  626