Fire and combustion presents a significant engineering challenge to mechanical, civil and
dedicated fire engineers, as well as specialists in the process and chemical, safety …

Performance-based fire safety system design enables fire safety engineers to assess the
performance of buildings and components by taking into account various scenarios of real …

Recent surveys have noted that the majority of bridges continue to serve for a prolonged
period of time (+ 40 years) that far exceeds its intended operational lifespan. Given our …

Various levels/types of analysis and design methods for structural fire engineering exist,
similar to those in other areas of structural engineering (seismic and wind) and in …

This presentation will attempt to address the issue of whether the engineering design
community has the knowledge, data and tool sets required to undertake advanced …

Abstract Machine learning (ML) has emerged as an efficient and feasible technique for
tackling engineering problems. Despite the numerous advantages, the implementation of …

This paper presents preliminary results to describe the fire-induced spalling of concrete
using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). One thousand fire tests were collected from the …

Emerging innovative architectural designs and new material inventions continue
challenging building fire safety and calling for new design approaches. This chapter reviews …

This paper describes a programme of blind modelling and benchmarking experiments that
was part of a larger collaborative research project. The modelling and subsequent …

Despite ongoing research efforts, we continue to fall short of arriving at a consistent
representation of fire-induced spalling of concrete. This is often attributed to the complexity …