Cecilia Abecassis Empis
- From: Lisbon, Portugal
- Qualifications: MEng Civil Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK (2004)
- Affiliations:
- Supervisors: Prof. José Torero and Prof. Asif Usmani
- Postgraduate study: Started 2005, graduating 2010
PhD Project:
Analysis of the Compartment Fire Parameters Influencing the Heat Flux Incident on the Structural Façade
Final thesis abstract coming soon.Project funded by BRE
Other research interests
The collapse of the World Trade Centre.Previous projects
Numerical Modelling of the probable fires in World Trade Centre 7 (MEng thesis, 2004)Selected Publications
- Allan Jowsey, Guillermo Rein, Cecilia Abecassis Empis, Adam Cowlard, Pedro Reszka, Thomas Steinhaus, José L. Torero, Asif Usmani and Barbara Lane "An analytical approach to define surface heat fluxes to structural members in post-flashover fires" To be published in Proc. 5th Int. Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards, Edinburgh, UK, 23-27 April 2007.
- G. Rein, C. Abecassis Empis et al. "Round-robin study of fire modelling blind-predictions using the Dalmarnock fire experiments" To be published in Proc. 5th Int. Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards, Edinburgh, UK, 23-27 April 2007.
- Abecassis Empis, C., Snorrason, D., Lee, J., Reszka, P., Steinhaus, T., Cowlard, A., Biteau, H., Stratford, T., Gillie, M., Rein, G., Welch, S., Torero, J.L., The Dalmarnock Fire Tests, IFE AGM - Bodycote Warrington Fire Research Prize for the Best Fire Safety Engineering Paper 2007, Cambridge. July 2007.
- Abecassis Empis, C., Reszka, P., Steinhaus, T., Cowlard, A., Biteau, H., Rein, G., Welch, S., Torero, J.L, Characterisation of Dalmarnock Fire Test 1, The Fifth International Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, Monastir, Tunisia. Sept. 2007.
- Jahn, W., Snorrason, D., Abecassis Empis, C., Rein, G., Welch, S., Torero, J.L, A Posteriori Modelling of the Dalmarnock Fire Tests, Advanced Research Workshop on Fire Computer Modelling, Santander, Spain. Oct. 2007.
- Deeny, S., Abecassis Empis, C., Stratford, T., Gillie, M. Torero, J.L., The Dalmarnock Fire Tests on a Cast In-Situ Concrete Structure, Workshop on Fire Design of Concrete Structures: From Materials Modelling to Structural Performance, Coimbra, Portugal. Nov. 2007.
