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Interflam 2001
Proceedings of the 9th conference

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2 Volumes


Publication Date:
Sept 2001
The ninth international conference was
held in Edinburgh, Scotland 17th –19th September. The proceedings contain 94 technical presentations and keynote papers and 58 poster papers. Volume 1 contains the following papers: Keynotes , Fire Chemistry | Risk Assessment | Codes | Fire Resistance | Fire Behaviour of Materials | Detection & Suppression | Standards | Testing | Fire Dynamics | Modelling Large Fires | CFD Modelling | Volume 2 contains:| People in Fires |
Transportation Fires | Fire Investigation | Modelling | 58 Poster Papers (listed by session)| Author Index

Details: Hardback, 1570pp with 269 tables and 772 illustrations, ISBN 0 9532312 7 5 (set)


Price: £ 40 plus p+p at following rates: UK - £7.50, Europe - £13.50, Rest of World - £22

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Keynote Papers
Use-inspired fundamental research for fire applications, Paul Croce, Factory Mutual Research, USA

Measurement concerns and opportunities for commercial fire testing laboratories, William Grosshandler, NIST, USA

FIRE CHEMISTRY
Combustion toxicity of polymers and fire retarded polymers, Richard Hull, D Price, R Wuinn, G Milnes, D Purser, University of Salford, UK

Quantification of PAH, dioxins and other chemical species in fire gases, Per Blomqvist, L Rosell and M Simonson, SP, Sweden

Formation of hydrogen cyanide from materials present in domestic applications, Margaret Simonson, H Tuovinen, SP & V Emanuelsson, Boras Univ, Sweden

Emissions from fires of wood chips, Bodgan Dlugogorski, A Bhargava, E Kennedy, Univ of Newcastle, Australia

RISK ASSESSMENT
A research agenda for fire protection engineering, Morgan Hurley, SFPE, USA

Computer modelling Vs reality - can we predict the behaviour of fires? Peter Camp, Strategic Fire Engineering Ltd, N Townsend, London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority, UK

Fire risk assessment for cultural heritage, John Watts, Fire Safety Institute & E Rosenbaum, Hughes Assoc, USA

Quantified fire risk assessment in the design of a major multi-occupancy building, David Charters, Arup Fire, UK, J Paveley, Arup Fire Australia, F B Steffensen, Copenhagen Fire Brigade, Denmark

A fire risk index method for multi-storey apartment buildings , Björn Karlsson, Iceland Fire Authority, B Tómasson, VSI Security & Fire Engineering, Iceland

Mandatory sprinklers in Vancouver - ten years on, John Robertson, City of Vancouver, Canada

An assessment of the risks associated with the use of oxygen decompression in compressed air workings
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Aubrey Thyer, A Wilday, Health & Safety Executive, S Andrews, Forensic Science Service, UK

CODES

The role of standardisation in developing fire safety engineering, Joel Kruppa, CTICM, France, Chair ISO TC92/SC4

Fire as a building design load, Richard Bukowski, NIST/BFRL, USA

The relationship between performance based fire safety design and performance based fire safety regulation, Anthony Kilpatrick, Glasgow Caledonian Univ, UK, V Brannigan, University of Maryland, USA

Natural fire safety for buildings, Louis-Guy Cajot, J-B Schleich,ProfilARBED-Research, Luxemburg

FIRE RESISTANCE

Kingdom Trade Centre Sculpture, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, Peter Bressington, T Lovell, A Hedges, Ove Arup & Partners Int'l, UK

Numerical modelling of structural behaviour of open car parks under natural fire, Bin Zhao, CTICM, France

Strategies for fire protection of large composite buildings Zhaohui Huang, I Burgess, R Plank, Univ of Sheffield, C Bailey, BRE, UK,

Fire protection of steel beams in composite framed structures, Susan Lamont, A Usmani, D Drysdale, Univ of Edinburgh, UK,

The temperatures attained by structural steelwork in building fires, Brian Kirby, Corus Fire Engineering Division, UK,

Loadbearing capacity of cold formed steel joists subjected to severe heating, Farid Alfawakhiri, Canadian Steel Construction Council, M Sultan, NRC, Canada,

Experimental flame heat transfer and surface temperature correlations for a steel column exposed to a localized fire, Daisuke Kamikawa,Y Hasemi, Waseda Univ, T Wakamatsu, Kumagai-gumi Co., K Kagiya, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Mangt, Japan

Calculation of heat transfer to structures exposed to fire -- shadow effects, Ulf Wickström, SP, Sweden

An application of the porous medium for protection of vessels against explosions, Yu N Shebeko, A Shatalov, I Bolodian, V Navzenya, D Shebeko, E Zamishevsky, S Kopylov, All Russian Scientific Research Inst for Fire Protection, VNIIPO Russia

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