Organised by the members of the International Association of Fire Safety Science the Symposium is held every 3 years. Papers are published after the event and only those that are actually presented are printed in the Proceedings. All the proceedings are hardback with cloth binding. The contents lists the chapters and the number of papers ( ).

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9th international Symposium Proceedings
18-23 September, 2005, Beijing, China
Editors: Björn Karlsson Iceland Fire Authority

Hardback, pp1438, ISNN1817-4299 (includes CD of papers)

The ninth International Symposium on Fire Safety Science held at the University of Karlsruhe (September 2008) attracted over 300 delegates from 25 countries.  There were three parallel sessions in which 114 fully peer review papers, including six invited papers, were presented.  Two poster sessions were also held at the symposium where a large number of posters were presented.  Posters and abstracts are available to view on the website: www.iafss.org

The 114 Papers are grouped into the following Sessions:

Emmons Plenary Lecture
Research on Electrical Fires: The State of the Art
Vyto Babrauskas

Invited Lectures
Fire Safety Science in Germany: A Status Report About Research Activites and Requirements, R Grabski State of the Art of Tunnel Fire Research, H Ingason
Risk-Based Selection of Design Fires to Ensure an Acceptable Level of Evacuation Safety, T Tanaka
Development of Design Fires for Performance-Based Fire Safety Designs, G Hadjisophocleous and E Zalok
The Challenges of Predicting Structural Performance in Fires, A Buchanan

Model Validation • Ignition • Fire Heat Flux • Soot • Flame Spread • Evacuation and Human Behaviour • Human Factors • Evacuation and Emergency Response • Evacuation and Human Behaviour Case Studies • Water Sprinklers • Water Mist • Suppression • Toxicity • Tunnel Fires • Spill Plumes • Flames and Fire Dynamics • Compartment Fires • Statistics and Risk Analysis • Performance Based Design • Deflagration • Detection • Fire Physics • Fire Chemistry • Structural Fire Perrformance • Modeling

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8th international Symposium Proceedings
18-23 September, 2005, Beijing, China
Editors: D Gottuk, B Lattimer

Hardback, pp1685, ISNN 1817-4299 (includes CD of papers)
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Contents: Invited Lectures (8), Ignition (3) Structural Fire Perdformance (14) Probablity & Statistics (4), Flame Spread (10),Human Behaviour (4) Evacuation (6), Burning Rates (7), Suppression (11), Burn Hazards (1), Wildland Fires (2), Risk Analysis (4), Flames (7), Toxic Hazard (8), Fire Chemistry (4), Compartment Fires (13), Smoke Control (2), Explosion (4), Measurement Methods (4), Tunnel Fires (7), Detection (7), Posters (61), Subject Index, Author Index

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7th international Symposium Proceedings
15-19 June, 2002, Worcester, MA, USA
Editor: D Evans

Hardback, pp1255, ISBN 0 to download a full table of contents (pdf file): CLICK HERE

Contents: Invited Lectures (6), Flame Spread (5), Fire Detection (5), Fire Physics (6), Risk and Decisison Analysis (5), Compartement Fires (6), Automatic Sprinklers (5), Suppression (3), Materials FIre Behaviour (8), Special Applications (7), Smoke Control (3), Performance Based Design (2), Test Methods and Modeling (6), Human Behaviour Data (2), Flame Behaviour (4), Human Behaviour Modeling (4), Structures-Columns (4), Statistics and Probability (5), Strucutre and Building Components (5) , Invited Posters (4), Posters,(52), Subject Index, Author Index

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6th international Symposium Proceedings
5-9 July, 1999, Poitiers, France
Editor: M Curtat

Hardback, pp1285, ISBN 0 925 223 25 5

Contents: Invited Lectures (7), Risk, Hazard, Statistics (8), Fire Chemistry (8), Fire Chemistry and Physics (5), Suppression (12), Fire Physics and Modeling (8), Fire Spread (12), Detection (3), Smoke (3), Structures (8), Compartment Fires (3), Materials (4), Behaviour (3), Applications (3), Fluid Mechanics (5), Posters Abstracts (73), Subject Index, Author Index,

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5th international Symposium Proceedings
3-7 March, 1997, Melbourne, Australia
Editor: Y Hasemi

Hardback, pp 1396, ISBN 4 9900625 5 5

Contents: Invited Lectures (7), Fire Behaviour of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Fire Spread, Fire Physics, Fire Modelling and Fire Chemistry (38), Stochastic Modelling, Fire Risk, Human Behaviour, Egress, Fire Detection, Suppression and Specialised Topics (34), Structural behaviour and applications (28), Poster abstracts (41), Subject Index, Author Index

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4th international Symposium Proceedings
13-17 July, 1994, Ottawa, Canada
Editor: T Kashiwagi

Hardback, Pp 1341, ISBN 1 886279 00 4

Contents: Invited Lectures (6), Physics, Chemistry, Smoke & Toxic Hazard (40), Human Behaviour & Egress, Detection, Risk, Hazard Analysis, Suppression, Applications & Special Fires (40), Structures and Structural Behaviour, Industrial Fires (22),
Author Index. Subject Index

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3rd international Symposium Proceedings
8-12 July, 1991, Edinburgh, UK
Editors: G Cox, B Langford

Hardback, pp 1063, ISBN 1 85166 719 9

Contents: Invited Lectures (9), Fire Physics (28), Statistics and Risk (7), Fire Chemistry (12), Translation of research into Practice (9), Structures (6), People in Fire (5), Special Fire Problems (5), Smoke Movement (3), Detection (4), Suppression (4), Subject Index, Author Index

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2nd international Symposium Proceedings
13-17 June, 1988, Tokyo, Japan
Editors: T Wakamatsu, Y Hasemi, A Sekizawa, P Seeger, C Grant, P Pagni

Hardback, pp973, ISBN 0 89116 864 8

Contents: Invited lecturer (3), Fire Physics (25), Fire Chemistry (3), Smoke Toxicity and Toxic Hazard (4), Statistics, Risk and Systems Analysis (10), People Fire Interactions (7), Detection (3), Suppression (7), Structural Behaviour (6), Specialised Fiore Problems (6), Translation of Research into Practice (12) Subject Index, Author Index

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1st international Symposium Proceedings
7-11 October, 1985, NIST, USA
Editors: C Grant, P Pagni

Hardback, pp1241, ISBN 089116 456 1 and ISBN 3 540 16585 1

Contents: Invited Lecture (1), Fire Physics (17), Structural Behaviour (10), Fire Chemistry (14), People-Fire Interactions (9), Translation of Research into Practice (9), Detection (8), Specialised Fire Problems (17), Statistics, Risk and System Analysis (12), Smoke Toxicity and Toxic Hazard (8), Suppression (6), Subject Index, Author Index

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