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Publication Date: March
1996
Hardback,
1068pp with 162 tables and 574 illustrations, ISBN 09516320
9 4.
Price
£55
incl p+p
This
seventh meeting in Cambridge,
UK had 80 technical presentations and 40 poster papers. The
proceedings are divided into the following chapters: Fire
Behaviour of Materials (14), Fire Dynamics (10), Testing (7),
Large Scale Fires (8), Fire Suppression (10), Structures in
Fires (3), Performance Based Codes (5), Risk Assessment (6),
Design & Information (4), People in Fires (12), Posters
(36), Author Index |
| TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
Fire
Behaviour of Materials
Fire
safety design of upholstered furniture - Application of the
CBUF project.
The effect of ventilation on the fire behaviour of upholstered
furniture.
Prediction of heat release rate of upholstered furniture using
integral formulation.
Flame spread and heat release rate model for a burning mattress.
Office work station heat release study: Full scale vs bench
scale.
Wind aided flame spread of floor coverings. Development and
evaluation of small and large scale tests.
The fire behaviour and fire testing of carpet used as stair
covering.
Fire spread in tyre dumps.
Fire safety assessment of the scrap tire storage methods.
Modelling the combustion of solid-phase fuels in cone calorimeter
experiments.
Flammability characteristics of cellulosic materials under slow
concurrent flows.
Numerical and experimental heat transfer study of GRP panels
subject to standard cellulosic and hydrocarbon fire tests.
Combustion products of advanced composite materials.
The use of the cone calorimeter to assess the effectiveness
of fire retardant polymers under simulated real fire test conditions. |
Fire
Dynamics
Review
Paper: Mechanisms of flashover.
Pyrolysis efficiency in upward flame spread.
An experimental study of upward flame spread on cellulosic
materials.
Flame length and flame heat transfer correlations in corner-wall
and corner-wall-ceiling configurations.
Large eddy simulations of smoke movement in three dimensions.
Spread of smoke front below a ceiling - analysis of axisymmetric
smoke movement.
CFD simulation of fires in two dimensional rack storage Full
scale trials on smoke movement in passenger ship accommodation.
Modeling the impact of post-flashover shipboard fires on adjacent
spaces.
Tomographic reconstruction of probability density functions
in turbulent flames. |
Testing
Valid
smoke evaluation by the cone calorimeter.
Wall insulation products: Full-scale tests versus evaluation
from bench-scale toxic potency data.
Monitoring fire gases by FTIR spectroscopy - problems and
solutions: Chemometric methodology.
Comparison of small and intermediate scale heat release data.
Full-scale fire research on concealed space communication
cables.
Cable fires in concealed spaces - a full scale test facility
for standards development.
Fire performance of facades and roof insulated with rigid
polyurethane foam - a review of full scale tests. |
Large-Scale
Testing
Large fire experiments for fire model evaluations.
Large scale fire tests - The British Steel Technical EuropeanCollaborative
Research Programme on the BRE 8-storey frame.
Full scale fire test on a steel
framed building.
Flashover
fires in a full scale building: Prediction and experiment.
A review of large-scale fire testing focusing on the fire
behaviour of chemicals.
Boundary layers before, during and after large experimental
fires.
Numerical study and experiments of fire whirl. |
Large-Scale
Testing
Large
fire experiments for fire model evaluations.Large scale fire
tests - The British Steel Technical EuropeanCollaborative
Research Programme on the BRE 8-storey frame.
Full scale fire test on a steel framed building.
Flashover fires in a full scale
building: Prediction and experiment.
A
review of large-scale fire testing focusing on the fire behaviour
of chemicals.
Boundary layers before, during and after large experimental
fires.
Numerical study and experiments of fire whirl. |
Structures
in Fire
Experimental
study on the heating mechanism of a steel beam under ceiling
exposed to a localized fire.
Three dimensional thermal analysis of steel beams exposed to
a localised fire.
Fire resistance of reinforced concrete columns - correlation
analytical methods with observed experimental behaviour. |
Performance
Based Codes
Performance-based
codes and fire safety engineering methods: Perspectives and
projects of the SFPE.
Setting performance code objectives: How do we decide what
performance the codes intend
The development of standards for structural fire design: EUROCODES.
Performance based codes: Economic efficiency and distributional
equity.
The characterization and use of design basis fires in performance
codes. |
Risk
Assessment
A
fire risk analysis model for assessing options for flammable
and combustible liquid products in storage and retail occupancies.Industrial
fire simulation with zone models and review on the current
regulations.
Regulatory requirements for performance based codes using
mathematical risk assessment.
Lessons learnt during the development of CRISP2, a Monte-Carlo
simulation for fire risk assessment.
Quantified assessment of hospital fire risks.
Experimental validation of a fire growth model. |
Design
& Information
Fire
safety - The design process.
SMARTFIRE: An intelligent fire field model.
A balanced approach to fire safety design.
Locating fire information.
|
People
in Fire
Impact
of social interaction on time to begin evacuation in office
building fires: Implications for modelling behaviour.
Emergency egress from large buildings under fire conditions
simulated using the EXODUS evacuation model.
Modelling and simulation of wayfinding process under fire emergencies
in complex buildings using systems dynamics approach.
Study of evacuation assisting system incorporated with intelligent
fire detection system.
Occupant decision making in office building fires: A methodology
for data collection.
Evacuation from underground opening space to surface; effect
of smoke.
Assessing the occupant response safety factor in evacuation
time calculations.
Fires and the elderly: Fatalities during residential fires in
the UK: 1982-84.
A study of occupant behaviour during the World Trade Center
evacuation |
Additional
papers
Legal
implications of real fire data collection and computer modelling.
Post-fire safety and the investigative process.
Extinction properties of smoke and vapor generated by heating
oil.
Jet fire hazards on offshore facilities - large-scale experiments,
modelling and fire protection. |
Plus
the text of 32 Poster papers. |
| Author
Index A-Z |
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