Fire Science and Technology 2015 by Kazunori Harada, Ken Matsuyama, Keisuke Himoto, Yuji Nakamura -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Frontmatter 1. In Memorial

1. Memories of Professor Toshisuke Hirano

2. Plenary and Invited

2. Fire Resistance of Multistorey Timber Buildings 3. Ultimate Strength and Its Application to Post-Earthquake Fire Resistance of Steel Frames in Fire 4. Integrating Wildland and Urban Fire Risks in Local Development Strategies in Indonesia 5. Thermal Analysis and Flame Spread Behavior of Building-Used Thermal Insulation Materials 6. A Discussion on Tall Building Fire Safety in the Asia-Oceania Regions 7. Toward a Risk-Informed Performance-Based Approach for Post-Earthquake Fire Protection Design of Buildings

3. Compartment Fire

8. Interaction of a Pool Fire in a Compartment with Negative Pressure Generated by Mechanical Ventilation 9. Pool Fire Behavior in a Small and Mechanically Ventilated Compartment 10. Discussion on Heat Lost Through Solid Boundaries in Modelling Atrium Fires Under Mechanical Exhaust 11. Experimental Study on Fire Behavior in a Compartment Under Mechanical Ventilated Conditions: The Effects of Air Inlet Position

4. Egress Safety

12. Study of the Occupant Characteristics During Evacuation in Medium- and High-Rise Buildings in Indonesia 13. Effect of Weibull Distributed Pre-movement Time on Evacuation 14. Travel Speed and Visibility in a Pedestrian Space with Inhomogeneous Distribution of Floor Illuminance 15. Analysis of Commuter Line’s Passenger Movement in the Station During Peak Hours

5. Electrical and Industrial Fires

16. The Effect of Multicomponent Electrolyte Additive on LiFePO4-Based Lithium Ion Batteries 17. PVC Cable Fire Toxicity Using the Cone Calorimeter 18. Lessons Learned from the 0801 Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City

6. Façade Fires

19. Experimental Study of the Fire Behaviour of Wooden Facades 20. Verification Methodology of Vertical Fire Spread to the Upstairs Room via Openings and Facade Wall 21. Experimental Study on Confluence of the Emerged Flames Ejected from Two Adjacent Openings 22. Neutral Plane and Length Scale of Spill Fire Plume Considering the Effects of Cross-Ventilation

7. Fire Protection of High-Rise Buildings

23. Performance-Based Fire Safety Design for a Skyscraper: A Case in Japan 24. Study on Fire Plume Behavior in Vertical Shafts of Buildings 25. Experimental Investigation on Glass Cracking for Wind Load Combined with Radiant Heating

8. Fire Resistance

26. Comparison of Existing Time-Equivalence Methods and the Minimum Load Capacity Method 27. Components and Consequences of Cross-Laminated Timber Delamination 28. Fire Behavior of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) Slabs: Two-Way Action 29. Influence of Water Content on Total Strain of Super High-Strength Concrete Under Elevated Temperature 30. A Study on Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Walls Exposed to Hydrocarbon Fire Under Vertical Load 31. Response of Steel Members Subject to Temperature Gradient in Localized Fires 32. Tensile Resistance of Splice Connections with High-Strength Bolts in Fire

9. Fire Safety Design

33. Statistical Analysis on the Reliability of Sprinkler Systems: Study on a Risk-Based Evacuation Safety Design Method 34. Determination of Design Fire Load for Structural Fire Safety in the Compartment Subdivided by Non-Fire-Rated Partitions 35. Linking Safety Factor and Probability of Failure Based on Monte Carlo Simulation in Fire Safety Design 36. Domestic Sprinkler: It Is Time to Consider Mandatory Requirement in Hong Kong 37. Discuss Performance-Based Fire Safety Design in Taiwan: Case Study of “Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts” 38. To Improve the Care Environments by Using Fire Safety Engineering for Existing Small-Scale Hospitals in Taiwan 39. Risk Communication Applied to Community-Based Fire Mitigation and Management for Historic Areas

10. Fire Source Model

40. Experimental Study on the Effect of Frame Height of Bed Mattress upon Fire Behavior in Compartment 41. Analysis of Combustion Expansion and Heat Release Rate During Combustion of Mattress Installed at Different Heights 42. Defining the Heat Release Rate per Unit Area for Use in Fire Safety Engineering Analysis 43. Algebraic Equations for Calculating Surface Flame Spread and Burning of a Cubical-Shaped Polyurethane Foam Block 44. An Experimental Study on the Mass Flow Rate from a Line Fire Source Along a Vertical Wall 45. The Simulation of Release Consequence with a Modified Gaussian Plume Model 46. A Simple Hand Calculation Method to Estimate the Pyrolysis Kinetics of Plastic and Wood Materials

11. Firefighting

47. Research on Firefighting Simulation Training System of Large Oil Tank Zone 48. Research on Indoor Firefighter Positioning Based on Inertial Navigation 49. Comparison of Bench-Scale and Manikin Tests of Protective Clothing Systems During Low-Level Radiation 50. Use of Water Curtains to Prevent Ignition by Firebrands

12. Fires in Transportation Systems

51. Full-Scale Experiments on Ship Accommodation Cabin Fire 52. Underground Station Fire Simulation with Multilayer Zone Model 53. Performance-Based Approach for Fire Safety in Aboveground Mass Rapid Transit Stations

13. Fires of Recyclable Fuels and Renewable Resources

54. Toxic Gas Emissions from a Timber-Pallet-Stack Fire in a Full-Scale Compartment 55. An Experimental Study on the Spread of Burning Gasoline Spilling on Water 56. An Experimental Study of Complex Fuel Burning Behavior Using Characteristic Fuel Unit Approach

14. Flame Characteristics

57. An Analytical Method for the Estimation of Radiation Heat Flux from Open Pool Fires and Pool Fires Impinging on Ceilings 58. PIV Measurements of Velocity Fields of Three Hot Air Jet Plumes Impinging on a Horizontal Ceiling 59. Evaluation of Temperature Rise Under an Eave Due to Flame Impingement: Toward the Mitigations of Fire Spread Risk in Japanese Historic Urban Areas 60. A Procedure for Measuring Flame Spread Properties of Materials by Cone Calorimeter

15. Flame Retardant

61. Correlations Between Measurements of Flame-Retarded High-Density Polyethylene Composites Subjected to Three Conventional Fire Tests 62. Fire Behavior of Intumescent Polyurethane: Synergy, Morphology, and Kinetics 63. Development and Validation of Skeletal Mechanism for Flame Inhibition by Trimethylphosphate

16. Flashover

64. A Validation Study of Existing Formulas for Determining the Critical Heat Release Rate for Flashover 65. Experimental Study of Time to Onset of Flashover in Classroom Size Compartment 66. Experimental Study and Model Analysis of Flashover in Confined Compartments

17. Material Flammability

67. Experimental Study on Radiation Blockage of Small-Scale Vertical PMMA Fires 68. Thermal Performance of Magnesium Oxide Wall Board Using Numerical Modelling 69. Burning Behaviors of Thermoplastic Pellets in Pans Under Different Conditions 70. Investigation of the Contribution to Fire of Electrical Cable by a Revisited Mass Loss Cone 71. Experimental Study on Thermal Insulation Properties of Charred Woods Under Radiative Heating 72. Thermal Boundaries of Intumescent-Type Insulations in Cone Calorimeter Testing 73. The Effect of Specimen Thickness on Critical Heat Flux and Effective Thermal Inertia Calculations Using Cone Calorimeter and Ignitability Test Apparatus

18. Measurement Methods

74. Low-Temperature CO Catalytic Oxidation over KOH-Hopcalite Mixtures and In Situ CO2 Capture from Fire Smoke 75. Comparison and Assessment of Particle Mass Concentration Measurements in Fire Smokes with a Microbalance, Opacimeter and PPS Devices 76. Improvements to the Hartmann Dust Explosion Equipment for MEC Measurements that Are Compatible with Gas Lean Limit Measurements 77. Numerical Simulations of Gas-Phase Interactions of Phosphorus-Containing Compounds with Cup-Burner Flames

19. Outdoor Fires

78. CFD Study of Large City Fires in Windy Conditions Relevant to Aerial Firefighting 79. The Velocity and Structure of the Flame Front at Spread of Fire Across the Pine Needle Bed Depending on the Wind Velocity

20. Smoke Control and Ventilation

80. Smoke Filling in a Confined Compartment with Single Ceiling Vent 81. Full-Scale Tests and CFD Modeling to Investigate the Effect of Opening Arrangement on Smoke Layer Height in Atrium Fires 82. Experimental Study on Influence of Air Supply System Difference on Smoke Shielding Performance in Air Pressure Smoke Control 83. An Experimental Investigation of the Fire-Induced Oscillatory Vent Flow Through a Horizontal Opening

21. Solid Combustion Fundamentals

84. Experimental Study of Sidewall and Pressure Effect on Vertical Downward Flame Spread Over Insulation Material 85. Heat Loss and Kinetic Effects on Extinction and Critical Self-Sustained Propagation of Forced Forward Smoldering 86. Numerical Study of the Radiative and Turbulent Heat Flux Behavior of Upward Flame Spread Over PMMA

22. Suppression

87. Validating the Function of Absorber Plates for Auto-sprinkler System Activation 88. An Experimental Study on the Smoke-Logging Phenomenon Using Sprinkler for Performance-Based Evacuation Safety Design 89. Effect of Fire Detection Function on Fire Suppression in Home Stay Facilities in Taiwan 90. Full-Scale Experimental Study on Fire Suppression Performance of a Water Mist System for Large Shipboard Machinery Spaces 91. Examination of Extinguishment Method with Extinguishing Powder Packed in a Spherical Ice Capsule 92. Experimental Study on Transformer Oil Pool Fire Suppression by Water Mist 93. Inhibition of Propane/Air Premixed Flame by Water Mist

23. Tunnel Fires

94. The Influence of Train on the Smoke Movement in Subway Tunnel with Longitudinal Ventilations 95. The Effect of Aspect Ratios on Critical Velocity in Tunnel Fires 96. Influence of Different Longitudinal Wind on Natural Ventilation Efficiency with Vertical Shaft Under Different Fires in Tunnel

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