Fire Science and Technology 2015

This book focuses on topics in the entire spectrum of fire safety science, targeting research in fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, risk analysis, structural engineering, and other subjects. The book contributes to a gain in advanced scientific knowledge and presents or advances new ideas in all topics in fire safety science.

Two decades ago, the 1st Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology was held in Hefei, China. Since then, the Asia-Oceania Symposia have grown in size and quality. This book, reflecting that growth, helps readers to understand fire safety technology, design, and methodology in diverse areas including historical buildings, photovoltaic panels, batteries, and electric vehicles.

contributions by leading international researchers in the field of fire safety science and technology Is the first book to focus on comprehensive topics related to fire safety science, especially with regard to historical and high-rise buildings and recyclable fuel and renewable resources Contributes to a better understanding of fire safety design and methodology in various areas including historical and high-rise buildings and photovoltaic panels, batteries, and electric vehicles

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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 M…