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069 - Challenging fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) with Michael Gollner
Why so many researchers are spending their time tackling fire issues at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)? What is so challenging about this? We alw…
3 years, 10 months ago
068 - Human walking speed and factors that influence it with John Gales
What factors influence the walking speed of an occupant? Is it just their physiology and crowd density? It seems it is more complicated than that (as…
3 years, 10 months ago
067 - Next-gen smoke control experimental facility and a digital twin with Grzegorz Krajewski
We've felt a bit awkward about how FSE handles smoke control in corridors. If you look closely into common practices, they rarely do include impressi…
3 years, 10 months ago
066 - Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings with Andy Buchanan
I wonder if we will be ever able to say: we know exactly how to build fire-safe buildings with mass timber. However that day may never come, each da…
3 years, 10 months ago
065 - Understanding mesh sensitivity and model uncertainties with Jason Floyd
Will a higher resolution mesh make my CFD more accurate? That is a harmless question, and most of us would tend toward 'I guess yeah'. But let us try…
3 years, 10 months ago
064 - Heat stress in fires - from inside and outside with Denise Smith and Gavin Horn
Season 1 Episode 64
This amount of heat flux for this amount of time, routine conditions, check, done. This is how I used to do my engineering and tenability assessment …
3 years, 11 months ago
063 - Why do we need a handbook of fire and the environment with Brian Meacham and Margaret McNamee
Season 1 Episode 63
Do we need another fire handbook? If so, what handbook would that be? I guess a question like this must have gone through Brian Meachams' mind when h…
3 years, 11 months ago
062 - BIM (not only for fire) with Peter Thompson and Rino Lovreglio
It does not matter if you hate or love BIM, does not matter if you use it daily or have no idea what it is... Building Information Modelling will be …
3 years, 11 months ago
061 - Glazing in fire with Yu Wang
Season 1 Episode 61
The relation between ventilation conditions and fire severity is quite a fundamental one. You don't even have to be a fire safety engineer to realize…
3 years, 11 months ago
060 - How PV panels change the fire behaviour of roofs with Jens Kristensen
[March 2023 update] The Thesis PDF is finally available! Check it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369141515_Fire_risk_associated_with_…
4 years ago