Fire Science and Technology 2015

Memories of Professor Toshisuke Hirano.- Fire resistance of multi-storey timber buildings.- Ultimate Strength and Its Application to Post-Earthquake Fire Resistance of Steel Frames in Fire.- Integrating Wildland and Urban Fire Risks in Local Development Strategies in Indonesia.- Thermal analysis and flame spread behavior of building-used thermal insulation materials.- A Discussion on Tall Building Fire Safety in the Asia-Oceania Regions.- Towards a Risk-Informed Performance-Based Approach for Post-Earthquake Fire Protection Design of Buildings.- Interaction of a pool fire in a compartment with negative pressure generated by mechanical ventilation.- Pool Fire Behavior in a Small and Mechanically-Ventilated Compartment.- Discussion on Heat Lost through Solid Boundaries in Modeling Atrium Fires under Mechanical Exhaust.- Experimental Study on Fire Behavior in a Compartment under Mechanical Ventilated Conditions.- Study of the Occupant Characteristics during Evacuation in Medium and High-rise Buildings in Indonesia.- Effect of Weibull Distributed Pre-movement Time on Evacuation.- Travel Speed and Visibility in a Pedestrian Space with Inhomogeneous Distribution of Floor Illuminance.- Analysis of Commuter line's Passenger Movement in the Station during Peak Hours.- The Effect of Multi-component Electrolyte Additive on LiFePO4 Based Lithium Ion Batteries.- PVC Cable Fire Toxicity using the Cone Calorimeter.- Lessons Learnt from the 0801 Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City.- Experimental study of the fire behaviour of wooden façades.- Verification Methodology of Vertical Fire Spread to Upstairs Room via Openings and Facade Wall.- Experimental Study on Confluence of the Emerged Flames Ejected from Two Adjacent Openings.- Neutral plane and length scale of spill fire plume considering the effects of cross-ventilation.- Fire safety design on the performance-based for skyscraper - a case in Japan.- Study on fire plume behavior in vertical shafts of buildings.- Experimental investigation on glass cracking for wind load combined with radiant heating.- Comparison of Existing Time-Equivalence Methods and the Minimum Load Capacity Method.- Components and Consequences of Cross-Laminated Timber Delamination.- Fire Behavior of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Slabs: Two-way Action.- Influence of Water Content on Total Strain of Super-high-strength Concrete under Elevated Temperature.- A Study on Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Walls Exposed to Hydrocarbon Fire under Vertical Load.- Response of Steel Members Subject to Temperature Gradient in Localized Fires.- Tensile Resistance of Splice Connections with High Strength Bolts in Fire.- Statistical Analysis on Reliability of Sprinkler Systems.- Determination of design fire load for structural fire safety in the compartment subdivided by non-fire rated partitions.- Linking Safety Factor and Probability of Failure based on Monte Carlo Simulation in Fire Safety Design.- Domestic Sprinkler: It is Time to Consider Mandatory Requirement in Hong Kong.- Discuss Performance-Based Fire Safety Design in Taiwan - Case Study of "Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts".- To Improve the Care Environments by Using Fire Safety Engineering for Existing Small-Scale Hospitals in Taiwan.- Risk Communication Applied to Community-based Fire Mitigation and Management for Historic Areas.- Experimental study on the effect of frame height of bed mattress upon fire behavior in compartment.- Analysis of combustion expansion and heat release rate during combustion of mattress installed at different heights.- Defining the Heat Release Rate per Unit Area for use in Fire Safety Engineering Analysis.- Algebraic Equations for Calculating Surface Flame Spread and Burning of a Cubical-shaped Polyurethane Foam Block.- An Experimental Study on the Mass Flow Rate from a Line Fire Source along a Vertical Wall.- The Simulation of Release Consequence with a Modified Gaussian Plume Model.- A Simple Hand Calculation Method to Estimate the Pyrolysis Kinetics of Plastic and Wood Materials.- Research on firefighting simulation training system of large oil tank zone.- Research on indoor firefighter positioning based on inertial navigation.- Comparison of Bench-scale and Manikin Tests of Protective Clothing Systems during Low Level Radiation.- Use of Water Curtains to Prevent Ignition by Firebrands.- Full-scale Experiments on Ship Accommodation Cabin Fire.- Underground Station Fire Simulation with Multi-Layer Zone model.- Performance Based Approach for Fire Safety in Aboveground Mass Rapid Transit Stations.- Toxic Gas Emissions from a Timber-Pallet-Stack Fire in a Full Scale Compartment.- An experimental study on the spread of burning gasoline spilling on water.- An Experimental Study of Complex Fuel Burning Behavior using Characteristic Fuel Unit Approach.- An Analytical Method for the Estimation of Radiation Heat Flux from Open pool Fires and pool Fires Impinging on Ceilings.- PIV Measurements of Velocity Fields of Three Hot Air Jet Plumes Impinging on a Horizontal Ceiling.- Evaluation of Temperature-rise under an Eave due to Flame Impingement - Towards the Mitigation of Fire Spread Risk in Japanese Historic Urban Areas.- A procedure for measuring flame spread properties of materials by cone calorimeter.- Correlations between Measurements of Flame Retarded High Density Polyethylene Composites Subjected to Three Conventional Fire Tests.- Fire behavior of intumescent polyurethane: synergy, morphology and kinetic.- Development and Validation of Skeletal Mechanism for Flame Inhibition by Trimethylphosphate.- A Validation Study of Existing Formulas for Determining the Critical Heat Release Rate for Flashover.- Experimental Study of Time to Onset of Flashover in Classroom Size Compartment.- Experimental Study and Model Analysis of Flashover in Confined Compartments.- Experimental study on radiation blockage of small-scale vertical PMMA fires.- Thermal Performance of Magnesium Oxide Wall Board Using Numerical Modelling.- Burning Behaviors of Thermoplastic Pellets in Pans under Different Conditions.- Investigation of the contribution to fire of electrical cable by a revisited mass loss cone.- Experimental study on thermal insulation properties of charred woods under radiative heating.- Thermal boundaries of intumescent-type insulations in cone calorimeter testing.- The effect of specimen thickness on critical heat flux and effective thermal inertia calculations using Cone Calorimeter and Ignitability test apparatus.- Low Temperature CO Catalytic Oxidation over KOH-Hopcalite Mixtures and In-situ CO2 Capture from Fire Smoke.- Comparison and Assessment of Particle Mass Concentrations Measurements in Fire Smokes with a Microbalance, Opacimeter and PPS Devices.- Improvements to the Hartmann Dust Explosion Equipment for MEC Measurements that are Compatible with Gas Lean Limit Measurements.- Numerical Simulations of Gas-Phase Interactions of Phosphorus-Containing Compounds with Cup-Burner Flames.- CFD Study of Large City Fires in Windy Conditions relevant to Aerial Firefighting.- The velocity and structure of the flame front at spread of fire across the pine needle bed depending on the wind velocity.- Smoke Filling in a Confined Compartment with Single Ceiling Vent.- Full-Scale Tests and CFD Modeling to Investigate the Effect of Opening Arrangement on Smoke Layer Height in Atrium Fires.- Experimental Study on Influence of Air Supply System Difference on Smoke Shielding Performance in Air Pressure Smoke Control.- An experimental investigation of the fire induced oscillatory vent flow through a horizontal opening.- Experimental study of sidewall and pressure effect on vertical downward flame spread over insulation material.- Heat Loss and Kinetic Effects on Extinction and Critical Self-sustained Propagation of Forced Forward Smoldering.- Numerical study of the radiative and turbulent heat flux behavior of upward flame spread over PMMA.- Validating the Function of Absorber Plates for Auto-sprinkler System Activation.- An Experimental Study on the Smoke-logging Phenomenon using Sprinkler for Performance-Based Evacuation Safety Design.- Effect of Fire Detection Function on Fire Suppression in Home Stay Facilities in Taiwan.- Full-Scale Experimental Study on Fire Suppression Performance of a Water Mist System for Large Ship-board Machinery Spaces.- Examination of Extinguishment Method with Extinguishing Powder Packed in a Spherical Ice Capsule.- Experimental study on transformer oil pool fire suppression by water mist.- Inhibition of Propane/Air Premixed Flame by Water Mist.- The influence of Train on the Smoke Movement in Subway Tunnel with Longitudinal Ventilations.- The Effect of Aspect Ratios on Critical Velocity in Tunnel Fires.- Influence of different longitudinal wind on natural ventilation efficiency with vertical shaft under different fires in tunnel.