The annual fire statistics for the UK shows the pattern of injury and loss due to fire. Drawing
on the current knowledge of fire safety engineering, the types of hazard commonly …

Thermal induced pyrolysis and the following flaming ignition of solid combustible play
crucial roles in determining the occurrence of fire and the subsequent flame spread. This …

Calculations of fire behavior in buildings are not possible unless the heat release rate of the
fire is known. This chapter on heat release rates provides both theoretical and empirical …

" Drysdale's book is by far the most comprehensive-everyone in the office has a copy... now
including me. It holds just about everything you need to know about fire science."(Review of …

There is little consensus within the fire science community on interpretation of cone
calorimeter data, but there is a significant need to screen new flammability modified …

This paper presents a generalized pyrolysis model that can be used to simulate the
gasification of a variety of combustible solids encountered in fires. The model, Gpyro, can be …

This paper experimentally and theoretically examines the horizontal burning of four species
of wood exposed to incident heat fluxes of 25–75 kW/m2 with their grain oriented either …

Fires involving electrical cables are one of the main hazards in Nuclear Power Plants
(NPPs). Cables are complex assemblies including several polymeric parts (insulation …

Most of unwanted fires are fuelled by polymeric materials, ranging from natural polymers
found in wood, cotton or wool, to synthetic polymers (“plastics”) derived from crude oil …

A great part of commercially available flame retardants are oil-derived organic compounds
(eg organo-halogenated, organo-phosphorous, organo-nitrogen compounds). As part of oil …