Due to socio-economic and climatic changes around the world, large outdoor fires in the
built environment have become one of the global issues that threaten billions of people. The …

Abstract Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) are becoming increasingly hazardous
for life safety and property protection. Guidelines and standards for fire practitioners are …

Relative humidity of air is directly related to fuel moisture. Fuel moisture is often considered
as the index of flammability in the context of bushfire. Variation of relative humidity and fuel …

Fires are an important aspect of environmental ecology; however, they are also one of the
most widespread destructive forces impacting natural ecosystems as well as property …

Background Wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires are becoming more frequent and
catastrophic as they are associated with the effects of climate change, demographic …

Background The present study investigates firebrand and heat flux exposures to structures
in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). The Australian Building Standards AS3959 defines …

External walls of the buildings possess the highest surface area and significantly contribute
to the buildings' bushfire resilience. Therefore, this study is aimed at advancing the …

To minimise the psychological and physiological impairment due to bushfire losses, safe
rooms are identified as one of the last resort solutions. This paper proposes a safe room built …

Featured Application Contributing to the development of an innovative performance-based
design approach for enhancing the safety and resilience of the built environment in the …

In this study, numerical simulations of coupled solid-phase reactions (pyrolysis) and gas-
phase reaction (combustion) were conducted. During a fire, both charring and non-charring …