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Asiaflam '95

Asiaflam Conference Proceedings


Publication date
: March 1995
Hardback, pp650 with 101 tables and 375 illustrations,
ISBN 09516320 7 8 .
Price £35 incl p+p

Proceedings of the international conference are a complete set of papers given at the first Asiaflam conference held in Hong Kong in March 1995. The 63 papers cover international and regional issues and are grouped into the following session themes: Performance Based Codes; Fires in Tunnels; Human Behaviour; Detection & Suppression; Forest Fires; Smoke Control; Fire Resistance; Modelling; Reaction to Fire.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Predicting the fire performance of buildings
The influence of fire engineering on system design.
New Zealand's performance based fire code.
Performance based design of shopping centre fires.
Application of risk-cost assessment model for the evaluation of fire safety in buildings
Fire Safety Strategies for the new Chek Lap Kok international airport
The Shenzhen Warehouse Explosion.
Design fires in tunnels.
Tunnel fire safety assessment.
Modelling of fire hazards in tunnels.
Smoke management of a 12+ km long railway tunnel under fire
Heat release rate in telecommunication tunnels.
Model of occupant decision making in office building fire emergencies.
Perceptual reaction for emergency evacuation.
Numerical Modelling of behaviour during egress in multi-storey office building fires.
Comparison of evacuation models for independence and mobility.
Cue perception on behaviour in smoke.
The New York World Trade Center Evacuation.
Sprinkler activation prediction methods.
Modelling suppression of liquid pool fires using fine waterspray.
Numerical study of waterfog fire suppression systems in a shipboard machinery room.
Development of a dynamic forest fire propagation model.
Modelling for predicting ground fire boundaries.
Three dimensional calculations of wind effect on smoke movement in forest fire
Introduction of a forest fire behaviour production system for Northeast China.
Study on smoke flow in a galleried large-scale void.
Investigations of smoke movement through a horizontal ceiling vent
Efficiency of smoke control of atria by mechanical smoke venting.
Experiments and analysis of air flow and pressure distribution in a pressurized stairway.

Hot smoke test to advance smoke control methodology.

Firesafety of building components exposed to a localised fire.
European calculation rules for fire exposed composite steel/concrete slabs.
Fire resistance of unbonded tubular concrete column.
Lightweight concrete walls under high temperature.
Innovative methods for evaluating combustibility of materials.Behaviour of ejected fire plume from an opening.
Numerical studies on sprinkler-smoke layer interaction.
Toxic fire hazard comparison of pipe insulations: Realism of full-scale testing.
Study of fire protection properties and combustibility for building materials.
Combustion noise characteristics of boilover process in oil pool fires.
Fire calorimetry to identify high performance of materials used in High Speed Ships.
Fire risk assessment in the development of hospital standards
Fire risk assessment in the development of hospital standards.
Evacuation Modelling: A new approach.
Smoke spread in multi-storey buildings.
Investigation of behaviour sequences during fire related emergencies.
Transfer speed alternation of humans in evacuation from underground opening
Study of fire behaviour in a full scale apartment:.Numerical analysis of structure exposed to localised fire.
Correlation between a laboratory-scale gallery fire test and a oxygen index test on electric cables.

Correlation between FRSS characteristics of plasticized PVCs and their char morphology.

Fire safety engineering design of airport terminals.
Fire safety analysis of a submerged vehicle tunnel in Taiwan.
Radiative characteristics and flame structure of various size of pool flame.
The fire damaged calculation of 40 years in China.
A numerical investigation of fire in a large arbitrary shape compartment.Modern concept and technique in fire safety engineering
Numerical studies on bond strength of reinforced concrete specimens exposed to fire.
Cone Calorimeter measurements of ignition and fire properties of several building materials.
Fire testing of communication cables.
Author Index
 
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