Books and Chapters

An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Dougal Drysdale, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1998.
The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety, Alan Beard and Ricky Carvel (eds), Thomas Telford, London (2005) ISBN 0-7277-3168-8.
The Dalmarnock Fire Tests: Experiments and Modelling, (Editors) G. Rein, C. Abecassis Empis & R. Carvel, University of Edinburgh, November 2007. ISBN 978-0-9557497-0-4. [purchase].
Evaluation of Fire Safety, D. Rasbash, G. Ramachandran, B. Kandola, J. Watts, M. Law, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 2004.
Ignition of Solids, Jose L. Torero , SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 4th Edition, (in press) 2007.
Understanding materials flammability, C. Lautenberger, Jose L. Torero and A.C. Fernandez-Pello, Flammability Testing of Materials in Building, Construction, Transport and Mining Sectors, Chapter 2, Apte Editor (in press) 2007.
Heat and Mass Transfer for Modeling of Structures in Fire, A. Jowsey, S. Welch and JL. Torero, Transport Phenomena in Fire, B. Sunden and M. Faghri (Editors), WIT Press, UK (in press) 2008.
Modelado y Simulación Computacional de Incendios en la Edificación, D. Alvear, JA. Capote, G. Rein, JL. Torero, O. Abreu and M. Lazaro. Ediciones Díaz de Santos, Madrid, 2007. ISBN 978-84-7978-832-2.
Mechanisms of Flame Spread and Smolder Wave propagation, J. T’ien, HY. Shih, CB. Jiang, HD. Ross, FJ. Miller, AC. Fernandez-Pello, JL. Torero and DC. Walther, Fire in Free Fall: Micro-Gravity Combustion, H. Ross (Editor), Academic Press, Chapter 5, pp. 299-418, 2001.

PhD Theses

from alumni and staff

2008 GeniSTELA - A Generalised Engineering Methodology for Thermal Analysis of Structural Members in Natural Fires, Liang, Hong http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2607
2008 In-Depth Temperature Profiles in Pyrolyzing Wood, Reszka, Pedro http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2602
2008 Transport Effects on Calorimetry of Porous Wildland Fuels, Schemel, Christopher F http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2572
2007 Assessment of the thermal efficiency, structure and fire resistance of lightweight building systems for optimized design, Amundarain, Aitor. http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2128
2006 Fire Imposed Heat Fluxes for Structural Analysis, Jowsey, Allan http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1480
2006 Interactions between the Reaction Zone and Soot Field in a Laminar Boundary Layer Type Diffusion Flame, Fuentes, Andres http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1765
2005 Computational Model of Forward and Opposed Smoldering Combustion with Improved Chemical Kinetics, Rein, Guillermo, http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1784
2005 Fire Induced Collapse of Tall Buildings, Flint, Graeme http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1172
2003 The Behaviour and Design of Composite Floor Systems in Fire, Cameron, Neil http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2127
2001 The Behaviour of Multi-storey Composite Steel Framed Structures in Response to Compartment Fires, Lamont, Susan http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1485
2000 The Behaviour of Steel-Framed Composite Structures in Fire Conditions, Gillie, Martin http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1466
1992 Buoyancy Effects on Smoldering of Polyurethane Foam, Torero, Jose L, http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/2134