2 Volumes

Publication Date: July 1999
Details: Hardback (2 Vol), casesewn, 1477pp, with 239 tables and 719 illustrations, ISBN 0 9532312 1 6 (Set).
Price: £99 plus p+p at the following rates: UK - £7.50, Europe - £13.50, Rest of World - £22.

The eighth conference was held in Edinburgh, 28th June - 1st July. In all 90 technical presentations, 9 invited plenary keynote papers and 56 poster papers were presented. Volume 1 contains: Testing | Suppression | Case Studies | Fire Chemistry | Fire Investigation | Performance Based Codes | Applications | Fire Detection | Risk Assessment | Fire Dynamics | Fire Suppression | People in Fire | .Volume 2 contains: | Keynote Papers | Fire Behaviour | Fire Resistance | Modelling | Posters (56), Author Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREVENTION: DETECTION
Assessment of the objectives and effectiveness of Hot Smoke Tests Peter Bressington, Chris Marrion, Arup Fire, Ove Arup & Partners, UK

Emergency smoke control system design for semiconductor fabrication facilities: Is property protection achievable? Michael Ferreira, Derek White, Javier Trelles,Hughes Assc Inc, USA & Po-Wenn Wu, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Republic of China

Simulation of smoke detection in a room with a perforated suspended ceiling Sören Isaksson, Bror Persson, Heimo Tuovinen, SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Sweden

Evaluating multi-sensor fire detectors in the fire emulator/detector evaluator Thomas Cleary, Melissa Anderson, Jason Averill, William Grosshandler NIST/BFRL, USA

An intelligent fire detection system using quadric hyper-surface fitting to multi-dimensional state vectors for fires Chikako Saito, Tetsuya Oizumi, Kazushi Kumagai, Sendai Nat'l College of Technology, Japan & Kozo Saito, Univ of Kentucky,USA

Needs for service life prediction of passive fire protection systems Per Jostein Hovde, NTNU, Norway

RISK ASSESSMENT
Risk-related policy issues in performance-based building and fire code development Brian Meacham, SFPE, USA

Risk appropriate enforcement and performance based fire safety codes, what is the answer in the real world? Geoffrey Winkworth, Fire Service College, UK & Clifford Harvey, Fire Mark ,USA,

Application of quantified fire risk assessment in the design of buildings David Charters, Arup Fire & David Berry, Home Office, UK

Impact of fire department response and mandatory sprinkler protection on life risks in residential communities Noureddine Benichou, David Yung, George V Hadjisophocleous, NRCC, Canada

Uncertainty analysis in fire safety engineering design Hakan Frantzich, Lund Univ, Sweden

Results of research into domestic house fires and its implications for regulators Paula Beever, New Zealand Fire Service, New Zealand & Stephen Kip, Building Control Commission, Australia

FIRE DYNAMICS
The characterisation of fires for design Gordon Garrad, Debbie Smith, BRE/FRS, UK

Flashover, backdraft and smoke gas explosion - The fire service perspective Lasse Bengtsson, Helsingborg Fire Dept & Bjorn Karlsson, Lund Univ, Sweden

Study of natural ventilation of enclosed fires: tests and simulations Jo~o Carlos Viegas, Jorge Saraiva, Natl Lab of Civil Engineering &, Maria de Graça Carvalho, Nat=l Lab of Civil Engineering, Portugal

A new interpretation of data from LIFT (Lateral Ignition and Flame Transport) apparatus and modifications for creeping flame spread Michael Delichatsios, CSIRO, Australia

Parallel panel fire tests for flammability assessment Peter Wu, FMRC, USA

Effects of buoyancy driven turbulent mixing in building fires Yaping He, Paula Beever, VUT, Australia

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