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Open AccessProbabilistic Performance-based Fire Design of Structures: A Hazard-Centred and Consequence-Oriented Perspective
Risk-based design and assessment methods are gaining popularity in performance-based structural fire engineering. These methods usually start by defining a set of hazard scenarios to use as analysis inputs. Th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Understanding Fire Safety of Historical Buildings
This paper addresses an issue rarely contemplated in the management of historical buildings, fire safety. Historical buildings are generally assessed within a framework of compliance when it comes to fire safe...
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Open AccessFire Performance of Sandwich Panels in a Modified ISO 13784-1 Small Room Test: The Influence of Increased Fire Load for Different Insulation Materials
Four sandwich panel rooms were constructed as prescribed in the ISO 13784-1 test. However, the construction followed normal industry practice, and the panels were also subjected to the kinds of damage typicall...
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Open AccessClean Power Generation from the Intractable Natural Coalfield Fires: Turn Harm into Benefit
The coal fires, a global catastrophe for hundreds of years, have been proved extremely difficult to control, and hit almost every coal-bearing area globally. Meanwhile, underground coal fires contain tremendou...
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Experimental Characterisation of the Fire Behaviour of Thermal Insulation Materials for a Performance-Based Design Methodology
A novel performance-based methodology for the quantitative fire safe design of building assemblies including insulation materials has recently been proposed. This approach is based on the definition of suitabl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fire Behavior of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Slabs: Two-Way Action
Two-way action is often stated to be a major benefit of cross-laminated timber; however, it is seldom considered when designing tall timber buildings. A research project has been carried out to investigate thi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Components and Consequences of Cross-Laminated Timber Delamination
Mass timber products such as cross-laminated timber are increasingly being used in tall timber building designs. The high-density wood used in mass timber products has a natural self-extinguishment capacity wh...
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IAFSS Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena
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A Framework for Selecting Design Fires in Performance Based Fire Safety Engineering
In fire safety engineering, the concepts of design fire scenarios and design fires are important for several reasons. In the design phases of a construction project the performance of safety measures, and the ...
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Open AccessRadiant Ignition of Polyurethane Foam: The Effect of Sample Size
Although smouldering ignition of upholstery items remains a leading cause of residential fire deaths, relatively little research is conducted on the topic. An experimental investigation of the effect of sample...
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A Novel Multiscale Methodology for Simulating Tunnel Ventilation Flows During Fires
This paper applies a novel and fast modelling approach to simulate tunnel ventilation flows during fires. The complexity and high cost of full CFD models and the inaccuracies of simplistic zone or analytical m...
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The Behavior of Liquid Fuel on Carpet (Porous Media): A Case for the Inclusion of Science in Fire Investigation
Flammable liquid fuel spills on flooring including carpets and other porous materials have long been a subject of interest to the fire investigation community. Early understanding in this community about the i...
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Sensor Assisted Fire Fighting
Fire detection and monitoring sensors, fire modelling, fire fighting and command and control are usually perceived as independent issues within fire safety. Sensor data is associated to detection and alarm and...
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THE RISK IMPOSED BY FIRE TO BUILDINGS AND HOW TO ADDRESS IT
The history of fire science originates in the desire to enhance destruction of infrastructure by means of fire. Many of the basic principles of fire growth and the behaviour of structures in fire were develope...
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Influence of G-jitter on the characteristics of a non-premixed flame: Experimental approach
The combustion of a flat plate in a boundary layer under microgravity conditions, which was first described by Emmons, is studied using a gas burner. Magnitude of injection and blowing velocities are chosen to...
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Burning Rate of Liquid Fuel on Carpet (Porous Media)
The occurrence of a liquid fuel burning on carpet has been involved in many incendiary and accidental fires. While the research on a liquid fuel fire on carpet is still limited, much work on porous media has b...
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Measurements of Smoke Characteristics in HVAC Ducts
The characteristics of smoke traveling in an HVAC duct have been observed along with the response of selected duct smoke detectors. The simulated HVAC system consists of a 9 m long duct, 0.45 m in diameter. An...
