While occupants are evacuating from the fire scene, firefighters are entering life-threatening
environments, exposed to hot and toxic fire smoke and risks of structural failures or …

In modern buildings, false ceilings are widely used for building services systems and
aesthetic purposes, but they also pose challenges in terms of fire safety. A fire accident …

Fire can damage structures severely and even cause the building collapse. Structural and
fire engineers must carry out a comprehensive forensic investigation of major structural …

The 'travelling fire'models have been used to describe the localised and travelling burning of
uniform fuel bed in large open-plan building space. However, fuel is typically distributed non …

More than 1300 new buildings over 200 m tall have been built since the year 2000,
representing 80% of the total number of supertall buildings globally. The proliferation of such …

In recent years, fires in tall buildings have become more frequent, which costs billions of
dollars each year and the loss of many human lives. The façade fire in the Grenfell tower …

The traditional methods to understand the development of elevated temperature in a
structure, and also the associated structural response, are not representative of realistic fire …

Many design regulations around the globe rely on member deflection as a governing
criterion for resistance assessment in fire. The deflection evaluation in fire is generally …

In performance-based structural fire engineering,“travelling fires” is being gradually
accepted as an important fire boundary condition. However, its application is still limited by …

This study analyses the structural response of an aluminium reticulated roof structure that is
constructed at Sichuan Fire Research Institute (Sichuan, China), and to be tested in fire. The …