Presentations

PDF files of almost all of the presentation materials shown at the conference are included here. Some have been witheld due to the nature of the data presented. Many of the files presented here are large (3-8Mb), but very large files (>10Mb) will be indicated.

Only presentations deleivered at the seminar are presented here. Inclusion here does not necessarily imply that the corresponding manuscript will be included in the seminar proceedings (currently in preparation), as all manuscripts are subject to a peer review process and possible revision before being accepted for publication in the proceedings.

Plenary Presentations

Keynote Address PUBLIC INQUIRIES AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SAFETY. The Right Hon. The Lord Cullen of Whitekirk
FLUORINE AND FLUORINE-FREE FOAMS: PERFORMANCE VS ENVIRONMENT. (13Mb) Bogdan Dlugogorski	HYDROGEN SAFETY RESEARCH: STATE-OF-THE-ART. Vladimir Molkov Presentation Videos: [here]
DETONATION INITIATION AND DDT: EXPERIMENTS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS. Sergei Frolov	MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF ACCIDENTAL COMBUSTION IN COMPLEX GEOMETRIES. Stewart Cant
FLAME PROPAGATION DURING DUST EXPLOSIONS. Ritsu Dobashi	RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER FROM LARGE POOL FIRES. Lou Gritzo
Special plenary session on major incidents: Due to the nature of these presenations, the slides have not been included on this website
THE INCIDENT AT BUNCEFIELD, 2005. Taf Powell	FORD ROUGE EXPLOSION AND FIRE, 1999. Thomas Long
LESSONS FROM TEXAS CITY. Michael Broadribb	KINSTON DUST EXPLOSION. Quentin Baker

FM Global Prizes for best papers

1st Prize ROUND-ROBIN STUDY OF FIRE MODELLING BLIND-PREDICTIONS USING THE DALMARNOCK FIRE EXPERIMENTS G. Rein, C. Abecassis Empis, et al. [Fire test video (mpeg, 20Mb)]
2nd Prize A GENERALIZED PYROLYSIS MODEL FOR SIMULATING CHARRING, INTUMESCENT, SMOLDERING, AND NONCHARRING GASIFICATION C. Lautenberger and C. Fernandez-Pello [video]
3rd Prize YIELDS OF TOXIC COMBUSTION PRODUCTS FROM FIRE RETARDED NANOCOMPOSITE POLYMERS A.A.Stec, T.R.Hull,	3rd Prize PREDICTING POLYMER BURNING USING TGA/DSC Mekyoung Kim and J. G. Quintiere

Presenations

3D MODELING OF GAS EXPLOSIONS IN VENTED ENCLOSURES WITH VARIABLE ASPECT RATIOS Bauwens C. R., Dorofeev S., and Tamanini F	A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED METHANE JET FLAMES IN A CROSSWIND G. Chamberlain, D. Bradley, P. H. Gaskell, X. J. Gu, D. R. Emerson [movie]	A GENERAL COMBUSTION MODEL FOR RADIATION DOMINATED NON-PREMIXED FLAMES Chatterjee, P., de Ris, J. L. and Lautenberger, C. W.
A ONE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE STUDY OF SOOT FORMATION, TRANSPORT, AND RADIATION LOSS INTERACTIONS IN FIRES Ricks, A. J., Hewson, J. C., Kerstein, A. R., Tieszen, S. R., and Gore, J. P. [Movie 1 | Movie 2]	A REACTION PROGRESS VARIABLE APPROACH FOR LES OF STRONGLY RADIATING SOOTY FLAMES Paul E. DesJardin and Amit Kumar [movie]	A STUDY ON FOREST FIRE SPREADING THROUGH HETEROGENEOUS FUEL BEDS THANKS TO PHYSICAL MODELLING Albert Simeoni and Pierre Salinesi
ADVANCEMENTS IN FIRE HAZARD CLASSIFICATION OF ROLL PAPER Yibing Xin and Joan M.A. Troup	AIRFLOW AND OXYGEN CONCENTRATION EFFECTS IN DUST LAYER HOT SURFACE IGNITION TEMPERATURE TESTS Haejun Park and Robert Zalosh	AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO DEFINE SURFACE HEAT FLUXES TO STRUCTURAL MEMBERS IN POST-FLASHOVER FIRES Allan Jowsey, et al.
AN EVALUATION OF MESG AS A RELATIVE MEASURE OF POTENTIAL EXPLOSION SEVERITY AND THE GENESIS OF A MIMIC GAS CONCEPT FOR EXPLOSION HAZARD TESTING Geraint Thomas & Gwyn Oakley	ANALYSIS OF A FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS FIRE LEADING TO A BACKDRAFT EXPLOSION Robert Zalosh	ANALYSIS OF THE FLAME QUENCHING PROPERTY OF POROUS STRUCTURES Mecke, S., Markus, D., Thedens, M., Engelmann, F., Hilliger, A. and Klausmeyer, U.
ANALYTICAL EVALUATION OF FIRE RESISTANCE OF FRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS- PART II Rafi, M M , Nadjai, A and Ali, F	APPLICATION OF UPWARD FLAME SPREAD FOR CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION OF INTERMEDIATE STANDARD APPROVAL TESTS Michael A. Delichatsios	ASSESMENT OF INHERENT SAFER TECHNOLOGIES FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION Landucci G., Nicolella C., Cozzani V.
ASSESSMENT OF FIRE TOXICITY - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SMALL AND LARGE SCALE TEST DATA Hull T R, Lebek K, Stec A A	BLAST WAVES AND FIREBALLS GENERATED BY HYDROGEN FUEL TANK RUPTURE DURING FIRE EXPOSURE Robert Zalosh	CALCULATION OF THE UPPER EXPLOSION LIMIT OF METHANE-AIR AND PROPANE-AIR MIXTURES AT ELEVATED PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES Filip Van den Schoor, Filip Verplaetsen, Jan Berghmans
CALORIMETRIC STUDY OF VARIOUS WILDLAND FUELS CONSIDERING POROUS BED EFFECTS C. F. Schemel, J. D. Rivera, J. L. Torero	CFD SIMULATIONS FOR THE COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOME FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN ROAD TUNNELS Ciambelli P., Meo M.G., Russo P., Vaccaro S. [movies]	CHARACTERIZING OF DESIGN FIRES FOR CLOTHING STORES Zalok, E., and Hadjisophocleous, G.
COLLAPSE SCENARIOS FOR TALL BUILDINGS IN FIRE DURING COOLING Charlotte Roben, Martin Gillie, Asif Usmani and Jose Torero	COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS OF MIXTURES H2 – (O2 – N2) – DILUENT AT VARIOUS OXYGEN CONTENTS IN OXYDIZERS V.V. Azatyan, Yu.N. Shebeko, A.Yu. Shebeko, V.Yu. Navzenya, A.V. Tomilin	COMPARISON OF TNT-EQUIVALENCY APPROACH, TNO MULTI-ENERGY APPROACH AND A CFD APPROACH IN INVESTIGATING HEMISPHERIC HYDROGEN-AIR VAPOR CLOUD EXPLOSIONS. A. Beccantini, A. Malczynski and E. Studer
CONTROL OF THE DEFLAGRATION-TO-DETONATION TRANSITION A.A. Korzhavin, V.S. Babkin	DETAILED NUMERICAL STUDY OF HAZARDS FROM LARGE FIRES IN LONGITIDINALLY VENTILATED ROAD TUNNELS S.D. Miles	DETERMINATION OF THE CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT IN REAL FIRE EXPERIMENTS Zhang J., Hereid J., Hagen M., Bakirtzis D., Delichatsios M.A.
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A GENERALISED ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY FOR THERMAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL MEMBERS IN FIRE Hong Liang , Stephen Welch, Tim Stratford & Emmett Kinsella	DUST EXPLOSIONS SUPPRESSION BY MEANS OF WATER SPRAY AND EXTINGUISHING POWDER Oleszczak P., Gieras M., Kauny M., Klemens R.	EFFECTS OF PARTICLE MATERIALS ON FLAME PROPAGATION DURING DUST EXPLOSIONS Takafumi Anezaki and Ritsu Dobashi
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF FIRE RESISTANCE OF FRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS- PART I Rafi, M M , Nadjai, A and Ali, F	EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AUTO-IGNITION MODELS FOR METHANE-AIR MIXTURES AT ELEVATED PRESSURES F Norman, F Verplaetsen, J Berghmans	EXPERIMENTS ON CHARRING CONTROL OF WOODEN COLUMN BY WATER DISCHARGE EQUIPMENT Yoshifumi Ohmiya, Kaoru Wakatsuki & Michael A Delichatsios
EXPLORATORY STUDY OF UNDER-EXPANDED SONIC HYDROGEN JETS AND JET FLAMES Dembele, S., Zhang, J., Wen, J.X. Movie 1 | Movie 2	FIRE PERFORMANCE OF CONCRETE COMPOSITE SEGMENTS USED AS SECONDARY TUNNEL LININGS Prof. Dubravka Bjegovic, Irina Stipanovic, M. Jelcic	FIRES IN CABLE TUNNELS: CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL FACITILITY R.J. Bettis, R.O. Carvel and S.F. Jagger
FLAME EXHAUST FROM COMPARTMENT WITH ONE OPENING. INTERPRETATIONS OF SMALL SCALE EXPERIMENTS WITH POOL FIRES Andrei V. Chamchine, Georgy M. Makhviladze, Pawel Oleszczak and Sergey E. Yakush	FLAME EXTINCTION BASED ON A CRITICAL DAMKÖHLER NUMBER FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SUPPRESSION EFFECTIVENESS IN REDUCED GRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS J. A. Sutula, M. S. Klassen, R. J. Roby, S. M. Olenick, G. Gaines & J. L. Torero [videos]	FORMATION OF PCDD/F IN FIRES: A CASE STUDY OF CUO-CATALYSED REACTION OF 2,4,5-TRICHLOROPHENOL Q. Sun, J.C. Mackie, E.M. Kennedy and B.Z. Dlugogorski
HAZARDS OF FIRES IN CHILDREN’S ROOMS – EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS Dr. Anja Hofmann, Christian Knaust, Dirk Aschenbrenner Video files: mpeg 1 (2Mb), mpeg 2 (15Mb), mpeg 3 (12Mb), mpeg 4 (2Mb), mpeg 5 (3Mb)	HEAT RELEASE RATE AND COMPUTER FIRE MODELING VS. REAL SCALE FIRE TESTS IN PASSENGER TRAINS. Capote, J. A., Alvear, D., Lázaro, M. & Espina, P.	IGNITION SENSITIVITY AND EXPLOSION SEVERITY OF SOLID/SOLID HYBRID MIXTURES Perrin L., Dufaud O., Traoré M.. and Laurent A.
INFLUENCE OF STATIC BURSTING PRESSURE AND IGNITION POSITION ON DUCT-VENTED GAS EXPLOSION IN MEDIUM SCALE CONFIGURATION Kasmani, R.M., Willacy, S.K., Andrews, G.E., Phylaktou, H.N.	INVESTIGATION OF A FATAL FIRE IN A MOVING VEHICLE Norman Alvares, Kirk Staggs and Guillermo Rein [Movie 1 | Movie 2]	INVESTIGATION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPLOSION DEVELOPMENT IN A CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON-AIR MIXTURE Geraint Thomas & Richard Bambrey
INVESTIGATION OF THE EXPLOSION AND FIRE ABOARD ‘SUPERFERRY 14’ (2004) J.F. Lygate	LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF IGNITION AND TRANSIENT COMBUSTION IN FUEL VAPOR CLOUDS Jennifer Wiley, Robert Webster and Arnaud Trouvé	LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A FIRE PLUME AND WATER SPRAY Xia J., Luo K.H. and Kumar S.
LES MODEL OF VENTED EXPLOSION: HYDROGEN-AIR MIXTURES Molkov, V., Makarov, D., Verbecke, F., Mansurov, Z., and Zhumabaev, M. Presentation Videos: [here]	LIMITING FLAME STRETCH RATES FOR FLAME INSTABILITIES AND FLAME QUENCHING D. Bradley, M. Lawes, Kexin Liu,	MEASUREMENT OF THE NON-DIMENSIONAL FRANK-KAMENETSKII NUMBER USING A STANDARD DUST LAYER IGNITION TESTING APPARATUS Ali S. Rangwala, Timothy J. Myers, and Alfonso F. Ibarreta
MINIMUM IGNITION ENERGY OF POLYESTER-BASED FILTRATION MEDIA D. Bayliss, B.Z. Dlugogorski and E.M. Kennedy	MIXTURE FRACTION MEASUREMENTS DURING THE FLAME TRANSMISSION AT EQUIPMENT OF THE TYPE OF PROTECTION FLAMEPROOF ENCLOSURE Markus, D., Sadanandan, R., Schießl, R. and Maas, U.	MODELING MICROGRAVITY AND NORMAL GRAVITY FLAME SPREAD RATES OVER SAMPLES OF POLYMER AND POLYMER/GLASS COMPOSITES McAllister, S., Rich, D., Lautenberger, C., Fernandez-Pello, A.C., Yuan, Z.G.
MODELING SOLID-PHASE PYROLYSIS USING EMMONS’ BURNING RATE SOLUTION - APPLICATION TO FDS Ali S. Rangwala, Steven G. Buckley, Nick A. Dembsey and José L. Torero	MODELING STRATEGIES IN FIELD SIMULATIONS OF A SINGLE SIDE WELL-VENTILATED FIRE IN A SMALL COMPARTMENT Bart Merci, Karim Van Maele and Paul Vandevelde	PDF SIMULATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN CHEMICAL AND TURBULENT ASPECTS DURING TYPICAL NON PREMIXED FLAME F. Richard, T. Rogaume, P. Rousseaux
PERFORMANCE BASED ENGINEERING WITH A BIVARIATE PDF OF FIRE SIZE AND VENT OPENING R.R. Upadhyay and O.A. Ezekoye	PREDICTING METHOD OF FIRE LOCATION AND ITS INTENSITY BASED ON CEILING JET TEMPERATURE UNDER UNCONFINED CEILING Kotaro Nitta, Jun’ich Yamaguchi, Yasushi Oka and Ko Muraoka	PROPANE-AIR EXPLOSIONS IN A PARTIALLY FILLED INTERCONNECTED VESSEL Willacy, S.K., Phylaktou, H.N., Andrews G.E. and Kasmani, R.M.
RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN TIME EVOLVING POLYDISPERSE WATER SPRAYS FOR FIRE SUPPRESSION ENVIRONEMENTS William F Godoy and Paul E. DesJardin Presentation Videos: [here]	REALISTIC PROBABILITY ESTIMATES FOR DESTRUCTIVE OVERPRESSURE EVENTS IN HEATED CENTER WING TANKS OF COMMERCIAL JET AIRCRAFT Norman Alvares & Howard Lambert	SELF-IGNITION HAZARDS OF RECYCLING MATERIALS, BIOMASS AND MUNICIPIAL SOLID WASTES Anka Berger, Marcus Malow and Ulrich Krause [video]
SIMPLIFIED MODELLING OF EXPLOSION PROPAGATION BY DUST LIFTING IN COAL MINES Skjold, T., Eckhoff, R.K., Arntzen, B.J., Lebecki, K., Dyduch, Z., Klemens, R., & Zydak, P. [videos]	SIMULATION OF VISIBILITY IN SMOKE LADEN ENVIRONMENTS Rubini P.A., Zhang Q.	SUPER REAL TIME PREDICTION OF UPWARD FLAME SPREAD A.Cowlard, G. Rein, S.Welch, J.L. Torero and A.S. Usmani
THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTER FIRE MODELLING TO A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY CASE S.D. Miles	THE EFFECT OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONCRETE ON THE RESIDUAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AFTER HIGH TEMPERATURES Éva Lublóy, György L. Balázs	THE FORMATION AND DISSIPATION OF FLAMMABLE MIXTURES FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF A FIXED MASS OF A BINARY FUEL MIXTURE INTO AIR WITHIN VERTICAL CYLINDRICAL VESSELS P.Cisse, G.A. Karim and I.Wierzba
THE INFLUENCE OF BUILDING GEOMETRY ON THE EFFECT OF EXPLOSION VENT Sonoda, N. , Hashimoto, A. and Matsuo, A. [videos]	THE PERFORMANCE OF CARBON FIBRE-REINFORCED-POLYMER STRENGTHENING DURING A REAL FIRE Tim Stratford, Jian-fei Chen, Martin Gillie	THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VENTILATION CONDITIONS AND CARBON MONOXIDE SOURCE TERM IN FULLY-DEVELOPED COMPARTMENT FIRES Forell, B., Hosser, D.
THE STUDY FOR THE PHYSICS OF THE OUTFLOW FROM THE OPENING OF A BURNING ENCLOSURE Yee-Ping Lee and Michael A. Delichatsios & Yoshifumi Ohmiya	THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF CCA TREATED WOOD: INFLUENCE OF PH OF CCA SOLUTION A. Ziolkowski, B.Z. Dlugogorski, J.C. Mackie and E.M. Kennedy	TOXIC GASES IN SIMULATED AIRCRAFT INTERIOR FIRES USING FTIR ANALYSIS Andrews, G.E., Li, Hu and Phylaktou, H.N.
UNDERSTANDING FIRE SUPPRESSION OF FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS IN INDUSTRIAL OCCUPANCIES Christopher J. Wieczorek	UNDERSTANDING THE COMPRESSIVE RING IN REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS IN FIRE David Fox, Asif Usmani and Tim Stratford