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)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TESTING
Uncertainty of HRR and SPR measurements in SBI room/corner test, Anders Lonnermark, J Axelsson, I Wetterlund, P van Hees, P Andersson, SP, Sweden

Correlation studies of SBI and cone calorimeter test results, Tuula Hakkarainen, VTT Building & Transport, Finland

Correlating large-scale fire performance with the Single Burning Item test, Debbie Smith, N Marshall, K Shaw, S Colwell, FRS/BRE, UK

A study on the structure of cone calorimeter as the authorized apparatus, Shinichi Sugahara, Univ of Tokyo, M Yoshida, National Inst for Land and Infrastructure Managements, K Ueda, Toyo Seiki Seisaku-Sho, Japan

Rating product components as non combustible, Ronald Alpert, M Khan, Factory Mutual Research, USA

Full scale fire tests with double skin glass façade, Mattias Delin, Brandskyddslaget AB, P Walmerdahl, FOI Defense Research, Sweden

Replacing a regulatory large-scale flammability test for conveyor belts with a small-scale test, Vivek Apte, CSIRO, R Bilger, Sydney Univ, Australia & A Tewarson, Factory Mutual Research, USA

A comparison of building code classifications and results of intermediate-scale fire testing of stored plastic commodities, Scott Dillon, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire Arms, M Janssens, Univ of North Carolina, A Garabedian, Southwest Research Institute, USA

Estimates of the uncertainty of radiative heat flux calculated from total heat flux measurements, Rodney Bryant, C Womeldorf, E Johnson, T Ohlemiller, NIST/BFRL, USA

A preliminary investigation into the partitioning of enclosure boundary fire induced incident fluxes, Gordon Silcock, Univ of Ulster, P Lennon, Letterkenny Inst of Technology, UK

A simple method for evaluation of thermal protective clothing, Peter Wu, Factory Mutual Research, C Lee, I-y Kim, US Army, USA

MODELLING 1. Large Fires and CFD
The use of a laminar flamelet approach in the large eddy simulation of flame structure at the base of a pool fire
Jennifer Wen, Y Kang, Kingston University, UK & K McGrattan, H Baum, NIST/BFRL, USA

Large eddy simulation of wood combustion, Simo Hostikka, VTT Building & Transportation, Finland & K McGrattan, NIST/BFRL, USA

Simulation of the Virginia Tech Fire Research Laboratory using large eddy-simulation with mixture fraction chemistry and finite volume radiative heat transfer, Jason Floyd, NIST/BFRL & C Wieczorek, U Vandsburger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA

On the development of a subgrid CFD model for fire extinguishment, Sheldon Tieszen, A Black, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

CFD MODELLING
Use of CFD models for development of fire test methods, Jesper Axelsson, P van Hees, SP, Sweden

Validation of CFD models for room fires and tunnel fires, Vincent Cheng, R Yau, S Lee, Arup Advanced Engineering, M Luo, L Zhao, Arup Fire, Hong Kong

Automatic dynamic control of CFD base fire modelling simulations, John Ewer, E Galea, D Janes, M Patel, B Knight, Univ of Greenwich, UK

Some guidance on "correct" use of CFD models for fire applications with examples, Suresh Kumar, G Cox, FRS/BRE, UK

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