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POSTERS

POSTER SESSION 1: MONDAY 24th @ 17.15hrs

Flame Propagation over an Inclined Porous Solid wetted with Flammable Liquid, (p001) Jafar Zanganeh, B Moghtaderi, Univ of Newcastle, Australia

Implementation of Improved Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) in Fire Dynamics Simulator, (p003) David Johansen, B Husted, Stord/Haugesund University College, Norway

The Discretized Radiation Method, a method to perform heat radiation calculations for arbitrary shaped flame geometries', (p005) Inge Trijssenaar-Buhre, H Boot, TNO, The Netherlands

Identification of temperature and composition of flames from wildland fine fuels using IR spectrometry data, (p008) Anthony Collin, R Berfroi, Z Acem, G Parent, P Boulet, Universit´e de Lorraine and Y Billaud, Y Pizzo, A Kaiss, B Porterie, Universit´e d'Aix-Marseille, France

Numerical Simulation of Decomposition and Combustion of an Epoxy-Carbon-Fiber Composite, (p010) Amanda Dodd, B Shelden, Sandia National Laboratories and K Erickson, Consultant, USA

Effect of humidity on the combustion of materials from household furniture, (p014) Axel Bellivier, D Garcia, A Thiry, M Suzanne, H Bazin, Laboratoire central de la Préfecture de Police, France

Complying with Fire Safety Performance Requirements when Installing Blast Resistance Laminated Glazing Systems for Sub-surface Locations (p053) Sam Sambasivan London Underground, UK

Fire hazard of MV/HV cables installed in tunnels, (p021) James Robinson, Borealis Polymers NV, Belgium, G Alexander, Olex, Australia, C Philippczyk, NKT Cables, Germany, KV Poulsen, NKT Cables, Denmark , T Journeaux, D Gracias, Prysmian Cables & Systems, UK, P Almeida, Solidal, Portugal and W Loyens, Borealis AB, Sweden

Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings, (p022) Brian Meacham, J Echeverria, R Cheng, B Poole, WPI, USA

Survey on the status of Fire Safety Engineering in Europe, (p047) Michael Stromgren, D Lange, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden

The design of more secure pressurization systems in stair cases of high rise buildings, (p049) Michael Haas, A Winthorst, P van de Leur, DMGR Consulting Engineers, Netherlands

Quantitative analysis of fire risks in tall buildings, (p050) David Charters, C Sherwood, BRE, UK

Smoke and heat emissions as the measures of interaction of tested elements with test environment in fire resistance testing, (p055) Miroslav Smolka, Rockwool International A/S, Y Suurenbroek, Suurenbroek Consultancy BV., Slovakia

Effect of Laboratory Size, Ventilation and External Influences on Cone-calorimeter Results, (p061) Hideki Yoshioka, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), T Hayakawa, TSV, Y Tanaike, TUS and K Yoshida, NNHK, Japan

Effect of water mist and ventilation on engine room fire, (p063) Einar Kolstad, B Husted, University College of Stord/Haugesund, Norway

Very early fire detection in nursing facilities, (p066) Kim Sommerlund-Thorsen, Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, Denmark

Explosive spalling in polymer concrete exposed to fire, (p068) Erica Ciapini, University of Florence, Italy

Structural Fire Engineering - Applications under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, (p070) Eoin O'Loughlin, S Liptrott, AECOM Fire and Risk Engineering, UK

Validation of FLACS-Fire for pool fires in a large geometry, (p071) Bjorn Lilleberg, D Muthusamy, GexCon AS, Norway

Flame Spread in the Initial Phase Of A Fire, Experiments, Calculations and Simulations, (p073) Nina Schjerve, Vasko + Partner Engineers, Austria

A novel methodology of electronically controlled sprinkler activation,(p078) L.T. Tanklevskiy, V Zima, Gefest Ltd and A Snegirev, A Tsoi, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia

Modeling And Reality Of Evacuation Process, (p083) Dmitry Samoshin, V Kholshchevnikov, Academy of State Fire Service, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Russia

Minimizing Crisis Through Knowledge and Anticipation: Qualitative Modeling of Building Evacuation Process, (p084) Manuela Tancogne-Dejean, ATILH and University of Technology of Troyes, P Laclemence, University of Technology of Troyes, France

Contribution to fire scenario evaluation in fire safety engineering, (p085) Audun Borg, O Njå, University of Stavanger, Norway

Application of Fire Engineering, Fire Science and Fire Risk Assessment in the use of PVB Glazing, Case Study - Paddington Station Integrated Project, (p086) Nishani Sakizlis, D Livingstone, R Hall, Mott MacDonald Ltd and S Sambasivan, London Underground, UK

POSTER SESSION 2: TUESDAY 25th @ 13.45hrs

Experimental Study on Fire Behaviour of Real Scale-Bed Mattress, (p013) Kye-Won Park, J-G Jeong , Fire Insurers Laboratories of Korea (FILK), W-H Kim, Kyung-Min Univ, South Korea and Y Ohmiya, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Fire Effects on New Styles of High Efficiency Lighting, (p025) Richard Meier, P Kennedy, John A. Kennedy and Associates, USA

Science or Science Fiction? Human Behavioral Models in Fire Safety Regulation, (p035) Elisabetta Carattin, Univ of Venice, Italy and V Brannigan, University of Maryland, USA

Variance analysis of maritime passenger clusters travel speeds with regards to the head's walking speed and head counts, (p036) Soo-Ho Lee, W-H Hong, Kyungpook National University, Republic of Korea, J-H Choi, Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea, K-I Hwang, Korea Maritime University and W-J Na, B-H Son, C-H Ahn, Daegu Technical University, Republic of Korea

Immersive Virtual Environment as a Method to experimentally study human behaviour in fire, (p037) Kristin Andrée, D Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden and M Kinateder University of Würzburg, Germany

Essential system choices relevant to the capacity of escape routes in multistory buildings, (p039) Peter van de Leur, M Klein, DMGR Consulting Engineers and N Scholten, Foundation Expert Center Regulations in Building (ERB), Netherlands

Modelling response of occupants to warnings from different fire safety systems, (p042) Xia Zhang, X Li, G Hadjisophocleous, Carleton University, Canada

Solving Design Challenges: Time Equivalence, (p044) Angus Law, N Butterworth, Arup, UK and J Stern-Gottfried, Arup, Germany

Simulation of fire technical properties of products and construction barriers to support efficient product development in industry (FireTools), (p045) Patrick van Hees, B Andersson, Lund University, Sweden and F Guay, D Lauridsen, Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, Denmark

FDS jet fan stream modelling - comparison with Experimental Data, (p046) Dorota Brzezinska, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

A Natural Fire Test to Assess the Behaviour of Modern Timber Construction Techniques: Light Timber Frame vs. Glued Laminated Timber, (p056) Dionysios Kolaitis, E Asimakopoulou, M Founti, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Concrete Filled Steel Hollow Columns Subjected to Fire, (p060) João Paulo C Rodrigues, TAC Pires, University of Coimbra, Portugal and JJR Silva, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Model Validation of Thermal Decomposition and Container Pressurization of Polyurethane Foam, (p074) Sarah Scott, M Larsen, A Dodd, Sandia National Laboratories and K Erickson, Consultant, USA

Development of an innovative method for elementary Heat Release Rate computation, (p079) Benjamin Truchot, S Patej, S Duplantier, INERIS, France

Small Scale Screening Tests to Assess the Self-Heating Potential of Wood Pellets, (p082) Ida Larsson, A Lönnermark, P Blomqvist, H Persson, M Rahm, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden

Bi-Stable Fire Flows: Engineered Design And Assessment With The Aid Of Computational Fluid Dynamics, (p088) Fabio Alaimo Ponziani, A Tinaburri, Ministry of the Interior, Italy

Predicting the Post-Flashover Temperature in a Compartment Fire Using Adiabatic Gas Temperature, (p089) Mark Kuang-Chung Tsai, W-T Chung, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Pyrolysis of polymers exposed to high thermal radiative heat flux, (p090) Guillaume Rambaud, M Roudot, E Buzaud, CEA, DAM, GRAMAT, France

POSTER SESSION 3: WEDNESDAY 26th @ 13.05hrs

Fire-fighting robot kit to be used in tunnels and subsurface facilities and restricted space, (p024) Alberto Tinaburri, F A Ponziani, Ministry of the Interior, Italy

On the Use of the Thermo-Gravimetric Analyser In Fire Investigations, (p028) Camille Riera, A Thiry, A Coppalle, J-P Garo, S Dupont, H Bazin, Central Laboratory of Police Prefecture (LCPP), France

Accounting for Arson Fires in Fire Safety Engineering, (p043) Martin Nilsson, N Johansson, P van Hees, Lund University, Sweden

Lakanal Fire Investigation - Reconstruction and modelling of the incident in support of the Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade Investigation, (p038) David Crowder, BRE, UK

Experimental Study on the Influence of Thermal Feedback on the Burning Behavior of Flexible Polyurethane, (p064) Annemarie Poulsen, G Jomaas, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark and A Bwalya, National Research Council of Canada, Canada

Comparing full-scale experiments with model-scale experiments to increase firefighter knowledge of fire dynamics, (p076) Stefan Svensson, Lund University and S Kerber, Underwriters Laboratories, Sweden

Proposals of standardized training procedure and indices indicating fire-fighters' fatigue, (p80) Yukihisa Kuriyama, Y Oka, Y Ito, M Enari, Yokohama National University, Japan

New NFPA Standard on Assessment of Fire Loads, (p092) Marcelo Hirschler, GBH International, USA

TRANSFEU Project - Development of a new classification system for the toxicity of fire gases from products on railway vehicles, (p016) Björn Bansemer, CURRENTA Analytics/Fire Technology, Germany and P Briggs, Exova Warringtonfire, Warrington, UK

The Quantitative Analysis of Combustion Gases from Interior materials of Rail passenger car by using FT-IR Spectroscopy, (p017) Duck-Hee Lee, W-S Jung, C-K Lee, J-Y Park, Railroad Research Institute, South Korea

Spread of Fire to Combustibles Surrounding a Car, (p018) Hiroki Miyamoto, T Otake, K Okamoto, M Honma, N Watanabe, National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan

Harmonised Fire Safety For Rolling Stock in Europe - EN 45545 and RSSB, (p019) Beth Dean, Exova Warrington, UK

MASSMOTION – A Step in the Right Direction (p156) Dermot Odonnell, Arup, Ireland

Physiological Characterization of Crawling Activity (p157) Jerry Davis, Auburn University, USA

Fire stops and fire-resistant sealing in timber constructions, (p43) Martin Teibinger, Holzforschung, Austria

Web Based Platform with Interactive Hazard Analysis as a New Approach to Propagating Fire Engineering Knowledge
P Tofilo & M Konecki, J Galaj, M Cisek, N Tusnio, W Jaskolowski, Main School of Fire Service, Poland

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