BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering: Recent submissions
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Fire Experiments of Thin-Walled CFRP Pretensioned High Strength Concrete Slabs Under Service Load
(The International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC), 2012-06-14)Sustainable precast concrete elements are emerging utilizing high-performance, self-consolidating, fibre-reinforced concrete (HPSCC) reinforced with high-strength, lightweight, and non-corroding prestressed carbon fibre ... -
Bond Strength Degradation for CFRP and Steel reinforcing Bars in Concrete at Elevated Temperature
(American Concrete Institute, 2011-03-01)Novel concrete elements are emerging utilizing high performance self-consolidating concrete (HPSCC) reinforced with high-strength, lightweight, and non-corroding carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) prestressed reinforcement. ... -
Bond Strength Degradation for Pre-Stressed Steel and Carbon FRP Bars in High-Performance Self-Consolidating Concrete at Elevated Temperatures and in Fire
(6th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 2010), 2010-06-04)Novel structures are emerging utilizing high performance, self-consolidating, fibre-reinforced concrete (HPSCC) reinforced with high-strength, lightweight, and non-corroding prestressed reinforcement. One example of this ... -
Effects of Elevated Temperatures and Fire on Bond Strength of Prestressed Steel and Carbon FRP Bars in High Performance Self-Consolidating Concrete
(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2010-05-28)Novel structures are emerging utilizing high performance, self-consolidating, fibre-reinforced concrete (HPSCC) reinforced with high-strength, lightweight, and non-corroding prestressed reinforcement. One example of this ... -
Uncertainty and complexity in pyrolysis modelling
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-10)The use of numerical tools in fire safety engineering became usual nowadays and this tendency is expected to increase with the evolution of performance based design. Despite the constant development of fire modelling ... -
Application of fire calorimetry to understand factors affecting flammability of cellulosic material: Pine needles, tree leaves and chipboard
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012)Calorimetry, the science of measuring heat from chemical reactions and physical changes, is one to the most valuable tools fire safety engineering have at their disposal. Calorimetric devices such as the cone calorimeter ... -
Large-scale Structural Fire Testing - How did we get here, Where are we, and Where are we going?
(ICEM15, 2012-07-22)Structural fire testing is experiencing a renaissance. Both the research and regulatory communities are currently confronting the inherent problems associated with using simplified, single element tests on isolated structural ... -
Unbonded Post Tensioned Concrete Slabs in Fire – Part II – Modelling Tendon Response and the Consequences of Localized Heating
(Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Multi Science, 2011-09)This is Part II of a two part paper dealing with the current state of knowledge of the fire-safe structural design and construction of unbonded post-tensioned (UPT) flat plate concrete structures. Part I provided ... -
Unbonded Post Tensioned Concrete in Fire: A Review of Data from Furnace Tests and Real Fires
(Fire Safety Journal, 2011 - Elsevier, 2011-05)The fire-safe design of concrete structures which incorporate post-tensioned prestressing tendons has recently been the subject of debate within the structural engineering community, particularly when unbonded post-tensioned ... -
Unbonded Post Tensioned Concrete Slabs in Fire – Part I – Experimental Response of Unbonded Tendons under Transient Localized Heating
(Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Multi Science, 2011-09)The fire-safe structural design and construction of unbonded post-tensioned (UPT) flat plate concrete structures has recently come under debate in the UK, and questions are being raised regarding the response to fire of ... -
World War II Fire Safety Propaganda Posters
(National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 1943)This document contains scanned copies of seven different World War II fire safety propaganda posters currently kept at the FRS/BRE Fire Research Archives at The University of Edinburgh. These posters were design and first ... -
Flammability of Christmas Trees
(1963)The flammability of conifers used as Christmas trees depends mainly on the foliar moisture content and also on the crown density. Trees allowed to dry can be ignited with matches when the moisture content falls to about ... -
Electrical apparatus for explosive gas atmospheres, Part 4: Method of test for ignition temperature
(International Electrotechnical Commission, 1966)This Recommendation was prepared by IEC Technical Committee No. 31 , Electrical Apparatus for Explosive Atmospheres. It forms one of a series of publications dealing with electrical apparatus for use in explosive gas ... -
Code of Practice Safety of Load on Vehicles
(Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972)The object of the Code is to provide operators, drivers and loading staff with guidance as to the basic safety principles that must be followed generally, and as to some particular precautions that can be taken to ensure ... -
Safety in Mine Research Establishment
(Department of Trade and Industry, 1971-11)Analysis of a statistical data shows that, on an average, about 50% of the total underground emergencies occurring in coal mines in the USSR are due to fires. Great attention is, therefore, paid in our country to the problem ... -
Electrical apparatus for explosive gas atmospheres, Part 3: Spark test apparatus for intrinsically-safe circuits
(International Electrotechnical Commission, 1972)This Recommendation has been prepared by Sub-Committee 31G, Intrinsically-safe Apparatus. of IEC Technical Committee No. 31, Electrical Apparatus for Explosive Atmospheres, and supersedes the first edition of Publication ... -
Fire-Detection Thermostats
(Underwriters' Laboratories, 1970-06-19)These requirements cover fire-detection thermostats to be employed in ordinary indoor locations in accordance with the following Standards of the National Fire Protection Association: NFPA No. 71 Central Station Protective ... -
Testing for Public Safety
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Electrical apparatus for explosive gas atmospheres, Part 2: Pressurized enclosures
(International Electrotechnical Commission, 1962)This recommendation covers the requirements for enclosures for electrical machines and apparatus in which the entry of flammable gases or vapours is prevented by maintaining the air (or ,other nonflammable gas) within the ... -
Fire Performance of Plastics
(Rubber and Plastics Research Association of Great Britain, 1972)This review swnmaries tests which have been used to define the fire performance of combustible materials including plastics. Many of the small scale tests are intended to classify the characteristics of materials in the ...
