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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)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PEOPLE IN FIRES
Factors in estimating toxic hazard - People exposed, people who choose exposure, people who can't avoid exposure, John Hall, NFPA, USA

Predicting the evacuation performance of passenger ships using computer simulation, Edwin Galea, S Gwynne, D Blackshields, L Filippidis, P Lawrence, Univ of Greenwich, UK

Study on evaluation of escape route in passenger ships by evacuation simulation and full scale trials, Koichi Yoshida, M Murayama, T Itakaki, Research Institute of Marine Engineering, Japan

Fire safety concept and evacuation procedure for a modern office building, Jerzy Respondek, Sicherheitsinstitut, Switzerland

Modelling evacuation data, I Taylor, G Livesey, H Donegan, University of Ulster, UK

Modeling contra flows during building evacuations, Rita Fahy, NFPA, USA


TRANSPORTATION FIRES
Tunnel fire safety, Kees Both, Centre for Fire Research, Netherlands

Full-scale fire testing in sub sea public road tunnels, Alf Nilsen, T Log, Stord/Haugesund Univ College, P Lindvik, ResQ AS & , Norway

The FIRESTARR Research Project on the reaction-to-fire performance of products in European trains, Peter Briggs, Warrington Fire Research, Y LeTallec, A Sainrat, LNE, France, S Metral, SNCF, France, S Messa, LSF, Italy, H Breulet, ISSeP, Belgium

FIRE INVESTIGATION
Application of computer modelling to real fire incidents, Richard Chitty, J Foster, FRS/BRE, UK

Investigation of the dance hall fire in Gothenburg, October 1998 - A comparison between human observations and CFD simulation, Zhenghua Yan, G Holmstedt, Lund University, Sweden

The Gothenburg discotheque fire investigation, Haukur Ingason, U Wickström, P van Hees, SP, Sweden

Fires originating from electric household appliances: An experimental and simulation study , Jukka Hietaniemi, J Mangs, T Hakkarainen, VTT Building & Transport, Finland

NFPA 921, guide for fire and explosion investigations - Introducing the 2001 edition of America's international standard for fire and explosion analysis, science, technology and methodology,
Patrick Kennedy, D Churchward, NFPA, Technical Committee on Fire Investigations, USA

MODELLING
Experimental data for computer model comparison, Charley Fleischmann, Univ of Canterbury, New Zealand

Statistical modelling of thermal radiation in compartment fire, Alexander Snegirev, G Makhviladze, Univ of Central Lancashire, UK & A Talalov, St Petersberg State Univ, Russian Federation

Analysis of fire growth in the room by means of cone calorimeter data, Jadwiga Fangrat, Building Research Institute, Poland

Comparison of flashover model with experiments, Jonathan Francis, T Yau, T Graham, G Makhviladze, Univ of Central Lancashire, UK

A computational and experimental study of smoke movement in a 10 storey building using a two-zone model
George Hadjisophocleous, Z Fu, Carleton University, G Lougheed, NRC, Canada

A computational study of the sprays produced by fire suppression sprinkler systems and their interaction with buoyancy driven flows, S Walmsley, A Yule, UMIST, UK

MODELLING - FIRE FIGHTING
Critical information for first responders, whenever and wherever it is needed, Walter Jones, R Bukowski, NIST/BFRL, USA

Evaluating fire department access using discrete event simulation, Robert Till, D Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Some theoretical and practical aspects on fire fighting tactics in a backdraft situation, Daniel Gojkovic, Lund University & L-G Bengtsson, Helsingborg Fire Dept, Sweden

MODELLING - CABLE FIRES
evelopment of a composite pyrolysis model for prediction of the heat release rate from cables by means of material testing in the cone calorimeter , Andrew Green, Fire Testing Technology, UK, P Van Hees, J Axelsson, SP, Sweden

Cable tray fires of redundant safety systems in nuclear power plants, M Dey, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA

CFD simulation of cable tray fires, Barrie Moss, I Aksit, P Rubini, Cranfield Univ, UK

Communication cable fires - A study to assist the development of improved fire tests , Peter Fardell, R Colwell, D Hoare, FRS/BRE, UK

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