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Publication Date:
September 1993
Hardback,
830pp with 117 tables and 324 illustrations, ISBN 09516320
3 5.
Price:
£35 incl p+p
The
Interflam series of conferences concentrate on the theme fire
science to engineering. In all there are 75 papers presented
in this comprehensive volume which constitutes an overview of
fire safety science and engineering solutions.
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| TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
| Keynote
lecture - fire science to engineering.
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| Characteristics
of flame in an open corner of walls. |
| Calculating
flame spread and heat release in the room/corner test. |
| Modelling
heat release rate growth in a very large room. |
| Oxygen
concentration on cone calorimeter results. |
| Specimen
heat fluxes for bench-scale testing. |
| Practical
rules for selecting fire science tools. Protection of glazing
by sprinklers |
| Smoke
exhausted through a common plenum. |
| Smoke
production from large pool fires. |
| Flame
radiation from pool fires. |
| Diffusion
flame behaviour in pressure and overgravity conditions. |
| Emergency
egress models and the disabled. |
| Simulation
of hotel fires using zone modelling. |
| Modelling
refuges for disabled persons. |
| Fire
safety and escape strategies. |
| Design
of economical means of escape. |
| Smoke
production from buildings. |
| Comparison
from smoke release data. |
| Small
and full-scale heat release studies from building contents. |
| Furniture
fire models. |
Cone
calorimetry for assessing electric cables. |
| Characterising
fire hazard of unprotected cables. |
| Ignition
and flame propagation of electric cables |
| Calibration
of heat flux meters. |
| Fire
detection and extinguishment using fuzzy inference and neural
networks. |
| Flame
extension behaviour. |
| Exposure
of adjacent structure from flames. |
| Large-scale
fire field modelling. |
| Validation
of FAST for room corner tests. |
| Hazards
from warehouses involving toxic materials. |
| Fire
test of a place of safety in a tunnel. |
| Fire
protection in Channel tunnel car shuttles |
| Fire
modelling for the offshore industry |
| Modelling
fire in ships cabins. |
| Life
threat in bus fires |
| Keynote
lecture - performanced based codes. |
| Risk-cost
assessment for non-residential buildings. |
| International
fire risk prediction methods.A framework for fire safety engineering. |
| Fire
engineering for a performance based code. |
| Application
of risk assessment methods. |
| Sprinkler
protection of warehouses |
| Risk
assessment of wood-frame and masonry buildings |
| Fire
and smoke hazard assessment of electronic equipment. |
| An
evacuation model for high-rise buildings. |
| Toxicology
and risk assessment of brominated FRs. |
| Fire
growth in warehouses. |
| Measurement
of heat gasification of wood. |
| Assessment
of PUR sandwich panels |
| Ignitability
and burning of plastics. |
| Behaviour
patterns and physiological impairment in escape from fire. |
Combustion
toxicity of smoke particles |
| Investigation
of high temperature accelerant arsons. |
Fire
assessment for offshore platforms. |
| Evacuation
of persons in case of fire in institutions. |
| Plus
18 poster papers |
| Author
index. |
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