Publication Date: July 1999
Details: Hardback (2 Vol), casesewn, 1477pp, with 239 tables and 719 illustrations, ISBN 0 9532312 1 6 (Set).
Price: £99 plus p+p at the following rates: UK - £7.50, Europe - £13.50, Rest of World - £22.

The eighth conference was held in Edinburgh, 28th June - 1st July. In all 90 technical presentations, 9 invited plenary keynote papers and 56 poster papers were presented. Volume 1 contains: Testing | Suppression | Case Studies | Fire Chemistry | Fire Investigation | Performance Based Codes | Applications | Fire Detection | Risk Assessment | Fire Dynamics | Fire Suppression | People in Fire | .Volume 2 contains: | Keynote Papers | Fire Behaviour | Fire Resistance | Modelling | Posters (56), Author Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS

KEYNOTE PAPERS
European classification of building products, Björn Sundström, SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute,Sweden

Activities of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers to facilitate the acceptance of performance-based fire protection methodologies Morgan J Hurley, SFPE,USA

The challenge of fire investigations - Today and tomorrow John D DeHaan, Fire-Ex Forensics,USA,

Polymer fire retardance perspectives: From flame extinguishing to flame prevention Giovanni Camino,Univ of Turin, Italy

Performance-based fire safety engineering design: the role of fire models and fire tests Vytenis Babrauskas, Fire Science and Technology Inc, USA,

Fire Risk Assessment - A review John Hall Jnr, NFPA, USA,

Overview of Fire Research in Russia Vladimir Molkov, All-Russian Research Institute of Fire Protection , Russia,

Perceptions and reflections on fire science, Philip Thomas, UK

Developments on the standardisation of fire safety within ISO, Geoff Cox, BRE/FRS, UK (Chairman ISO TC 92)

TESTING
The Single Buringing Item (SBI) test, the Euroclasses and transitional arrangements Debbie Smith, Ken Shaw, BRE/FRS, UK

Prediction of SBI (Single Burning Item) test results by means of Cone Calorimeter test results Birgitte Messerschmidt, Danish Inst of Fire Technology, Denmark & Ulf Wickström, Patrick Van Hees, SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Sweden

Comparative studies in the reduced-scale model box and the room corner test F Saito, Center for Better Living, M Yoshida, Building Reserch Instit, Y Hasemi, Waseda Univ, Y Tanaike, Japan Testing Center for Construction Materials, S Tasaka, General Building Research Corp, Japan & Jagwiga Fangrat, Building Research Inst, Poland

Calibration and use of heat flux meters
Ingrid Wetterlund, Bror Persson, SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Sweden

SUPPRESSION
Live fire tests on suppression of post-flashover fires using manually applied high and low pressure water sprays
Stefan Svensson, Soren Lundström, Swedish Rescue Services Agency, Sweden

Activation of sprinkler heads under perforated ceiling
Mingchun Luo, Peter Bressington, Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong, China

Fine water spray efficiency in low momentum deluge systems for flashover prevention
Torgrim Log, Alf R Nilsen, Stord/Haugesund College, Norway

Sprinkler spray interaction studies
Corinne Williams, Roger Harrison, BRE/FRS & Paul Holborn, South Bank Univ, UK

Fire precautions for chemical warehouses, a challenge for fire engineers
Alan Tyldesley, Health & Safety Executive, UK

Fire safety offshore and failure of a temporary refuge
Alan Beard, Heriot-Watt Univ, UK

Performance-based structural analysis to determine fireproofing requirements in steel buildings - A case study
Robert Iding, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assc, &Robert Brady Williamson, Univ of California,USA

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