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| Plans
for the 8th International Symposium
The
8th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science will
be held September 18-23, 2005 in Beijing, China at Tsinghua
University. It will be co-hosted by the China Fire Protection
Association, the University of Science and Technology of
China, and Tsinghua University. The arrangement committee
chair is Prof. Fan.
Tsinghua University is one of the premier universities in
China. The campus is situated in northwest Beijing on several
former royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty and is surrounded
by historical sites in northwest Beijing. With a splendid
legacy accumulated over the past 90 years, Tsinghua has
retained its character and charm while promoting rigorous
scholarship and research that ensure academic and educational
prestige in China and abroad.
Beijing, as the capital of China, is the nation’s political,
economic and cultural center and is unique in history, tradition
and characteristics. From the 12th Century to 1911, it was
the capital of the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. You
will find the city an unforgettable destination, with its
ancient Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and numerous palaces
telling legends of dynasties long lost in the mists of history.
Moreover, the city has refreshed its complexion by the growing
number of parks and recreational centres, folk shows during
holiday celebrations, splendid theatrical stages, and a
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Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium
Publication
of the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on
Fire Safety Science is expected in September 2003. The Proceedings
will be published in Book and CD-ROM formats. The CD-ROM
will be in PDF format, which will allow users to word-search
the entire volume and to print papers from the disk.
All
those receiving symposium proceedings as a result of attending
the 7th Symposium will also receive the CD-ROM version.
The publisher will mail the Proceedings directly to Symposium
attendees. Non attendees can order copies of the Proceedings
by contacting Interscience Communications at intercomm@dial.pipex.com
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| IAFSS
Support for Student Participation in International Meetings
The
IAFSS Committee has given £1000 to the organisers
of the 4th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards
(Londonderry, UK, 8th – 12th Sept 2003) to provide assistance
to students who wish to present papers at the meeting. Plans
are being made to offer similar donations to the organisers
of other Conferences.
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| News
from the IAFSS Education Subcommittee
A new
web site for the IAFSS Education Subcommittee has recently
been set up. This is a temporary site and has been set up
to encourage educators in Fire Safety Engineering to contribute
and share educational material. The temporary site is currently
accessible at http://www.brunamal.is/iafss-es.
At this
time, only limited material is available at the site. The
University of Leeds has graciously contributed a very interesting
web based learning tool on Thermal Ignition. James Ierardi,
linked to Worcester Polytechnic, has contributed an interesting
web tool, where several hand-calculation formulas can be
used with great ease. The Department of Fire Safety Engineering
at Lund University has shown the generosity of putting a
very comprehensive distance learning course on Enclosure
Fire Dynamics on the web site, accessible for free to all.
They have, however, limited the access to the first 5 Chapters
of the course, but state that if other educational institutions
show similar generosity, they will open access to all 10
Chapters.
We are now looking for more contributions. The IAFSS Education
Subcommittee is interested in placing material on the web-site
from various courses taught within the discipline of Fire
Safety (Protection) Engineering. Material of interest includes:
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Course curricula (or links to curricula), course descriptions,
reading instructions (identifying literature, page numbers)
and teaching material (such as PowerPoint or other material).
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Tutorial questions and suggested answers.
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Full solutions of tutorial questions (access will be limited
to teachers).
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Description of laboratory assignments.
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Examples of laboratory assignments handed in by students
(access will be limited to teachers).
Educators are asked to supply material in any format (Word,
PowerPoint, Excel, html, etc) to the IAFSS-ES webmaster,
Bodvar Tomasson or to Bjorn Karlsson. Bodvar is a Fire Safety
Engineer at VSI consultants in Reykjavik, and can be reached
at bodvar@brunamal.is. Bjorn Karlsson is one of the IAFSS-ES
Coordinators and can be reached at bjorn@brunamal.is.
Bjorn Karlsson, Director, Iceland Fire Authority, Skulagata
21, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. Tel: +354 591 6000
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Updates
on Fire Research Facilities
During
the 7th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science convened
in June 2002 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute a "Panel
on New Fire Laboratories" described five new fire research
facilities that were in various stages of planning or construction.
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FM
Global, U.S.A.:
Construction of the new Fire Technology Laboratory, in the
FM Global Research Campus in West Gloucester, Rhode Island,
has essentially been completed and acceptance testing has
started. All cold air flow and test water systems have been
checked and are working well. FM is in the midst of conducting
large fire tests to shake down the facility and the support
systems (air emission control, water treatment, building control
system, data acquisition, etc), and so far the testing is
going well. FM expects to be finished with the testing by
the end of August. For more information see
http://www.fmglobal.com/pdfs/Frontiers17_1.pdf
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), U.S.A.:
Construction of the new Fire Research Laboratory, in ATF’s
National Laboratory Center complex in Ammendale, Maryland,
has also been completed. Cold-flow commissioning of the
burn-room hoods has started. The first fires will be ignited
in early July, followed by a two-month, hot-flow commissioning
/ calibration program. The standard fire test equipment
(cone calorimeter, LIFT, etc.) will be functioning by the
end of July. For more information see
http://www.atf.treas.gov/labs/frl/brochure02.htm
University
of Ulster, Northern Ireland:
The new facilities of the Institute of Fire Safety Engineering
Research and Technology (FireSERT) are up and running. The
facilities include a 600 m2 burn hall, a range of calorimeters,
numerous large- and intermediate-scale fire test apparatus,
a fire dynamics laboratory and a human behaviour suite with
three sleep laboratories. A fire modelling suite has also
been outfitted to compliment the experimental facilities.
Extensive research and product development work has been
underway for some time. For more information see http://www.engj.ulst.ac.uk/FIRESERT/facilities.html
University
of Waterloo, Canada:
The new Fire Research Laboratory, situated within the Waterloo
Region Emergency Services Training and Research Complex,
was officially opened on June 20. The facility is technically
up and running though most of the equipment is still undergoing
commissioning and some is yet to be installed. The initial
experiments in the Facility will be transportation accident
scenarios involving a pool "fuel spill" fire impacting
a mock aircraft fuselage in light winds. Also underway is
the outfitting and instrumentation of a steel burn house
to conduct a series of studies of smoke transport in 2-storey
residential structures. For more information see
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infonews/release/2003/
Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile:
In May 2002, a new fire-resistance laboratory was opened
at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago. The laboratory
has already begun to test assemblies and coatings in accordance
with regional and international fire-resistance standards.
The laboratory offers a unique opportunity to promote materials
research and development in Latin America and will play
a major role in a new post-graduate fire-safety program
to be initiated in 2003. More information will be posted
soon at the web site http://www.dictuc.cl/ipf In the interim,
information is available by contacting fuego@ing.puc.cl
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| IAFSS
Awards for Doctorate Dissertations
IAFSS
is planning to offer awards for the best doctorate dissertation
in each of the three geographical areas (Europe and Africa,
Americas, Asia and Oceania) at each of its triennial symposia.
The aim of the Awards is to make IAFSS visible to young
researchers in the field of fire safety science, to attract
attention to our symposia and to encourage excellent contributions
to fire safety science by young researchers. Dissertations
completed during the three-year period ending 12 months
before the next Symposium are eligible for consideration
and should be submitted by the thesis advisors/research
supervisors. Each award will consist of an invitation to
present a paper at the next IAFSS symposium. Conference
fees will be paid and an award of $1000 (US) will be available
to cover travel and accommodation costs.
An Awards
Selection Committee is in the process of being formed.
Further information will be posted on the IAFSS Website
in due course, but any immediate enquiries may be directed
to Prof. Mario Fontana (fontana@ibk.baug.ethz.ch).
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| Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and FM Global Agreement
Worcester
Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and FM Global have entered into
an agreement which will increase their collaboration on fire
research and fire protection engineering graduate education.
FM Global will provide financial contributions to support
a WPI fire protection engineering professor as well as the
work of graduate students. FM Global also is donating two
state-of-the-art fire propagation apparatus for use in WPI's
Fire Science Laboratory . This
new agreement further strengthens the relationship between
the two organizations. WPI professors and graduate students
have been working with FM Global scientists, researchers
and engineers and taking advantage of their laboratory facilities
for decades.
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| Carleton
University’s Full-scale Fire Research Facility
The
design of a new Fire Research Facility for Carleton University
(Ottawa, Canada) is nearing its final stages with completion
expected at the end of July 2003. Construction is planned
to commence early in the fall with completion scheduled
for the summer of 2004. The $10 million (CAN) funding for
this facility comes from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation,
the Ontario Innovation Trust, the National Research Council,
the Ottawa Fire Services, and the Toronto Transit Commission.
The
facility will be of great value to the research program
of the recently established NSERC/Industry Industrial Research
Chair at Carleton University and will provide unique research
opportunities to graduate students at Carleton specializing
in Fire Safety Engineering. The facility will be constructed
on the grounds of the National Research Council (NRC) at
its fire test complex outside Ottawa. It will complement
existing full-scale facilities at NRC and it will become
a unique world class test site that will provide capabilities
for fire and explosion research and be marketable to Canadian
and International clients.
More information on the facility will be posted soon at
the web site http://www.carleton.ca/~ghadjiso/
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CONFERENCE
NOTICEBOARD |
2nd
International Conference in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics
The
2nd International Conference in Pedestrian and Evacuation
Dynamics will be held August 20-22, 2003 on the historic
campus of the University of Greenwich in London, U.K. Papers
presented at the conference will address the state-of-the-art
in computer simulation of pedestrian and evacuation dynamics.
As the only international conference dedicated to computer
simulation in this fast-developing safety and regulatory
field, the three-day event will attract senior decision-makers
from companies, public sector organisations and regulators,
as well as the world’s leading academic experts. For more
details concerning the conference, visit the conference
web site at http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/PED2003/
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| The
4th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards
will be held September 8-12, 2003 in Londonderry, Northern
Ireland.
The
Seminar will bring together researchers and international
experts working on the underlying science and technology
associated with fire and explosion hazards.
128
abstracts were submitted to the Seminar organisers addressing
advances in combustion, fire and explosion sciences and
the application of these advances to understand hazards,
and to prevent and mitigate the adverse effects of accidental
fires and explosions. Invited lectures will be given by
eminent researchers in the combustion, fire and explosion
safety sciences. The seminar is of particular interest to
scientists, engineers and professionals dealing with fire
and explosion hazards.
The
organizing committee is making efforts to give attendees
a feeling for the Irish character (with a hint of Russian
thrown in). A Preliminary Programme (soon to be finalized)
as well as general information concerning Registration and
Accommodations may be found at the Seminar web site: http://www.engj.ulst.ac.uk/4thisfeh/.
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| International
Symposium on Fire Safety of Steel Structures
An International
Symposium on Fire Safety of Steel Structures will be held
September 11-12, 2003 in Cologne, Germany. The seminar is
aimed at sharing recent advancements in fire safety of steel
structures that will be of particular interest to scientists,
fire protection and structural engineers, architects and
members of building companies and authorities. The Symposium
Programme as well as general information concerning Registration
and Accommodations may be found at the Symposium web site:
http://www.bauen-mit-stahl.de/veranstaltungen.htm
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| Call
for papers: 6th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science &
Technology A
Call for Papers has been issued for the 6th Asia-Oceania
Symposium on Fire Science & Technology (AOSFST), which
will be held 17-20 March, Daegu,
South Korea. The principal host of the symposium will be
the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering. The
program welcomes plenary papers, symposia session papers,
poster papers, technical demonstrations in the following
areas of fire science and technology: fire chemistry and
physics; fire dynamics; fire investigation; fire risk assessment;
fire safety issues (management, design, legislation, education);
fire spread and structure response; fire suppression and
detection; forest fires; gas explosions; people/fire interactions;
performance-based codes; smoke movement; and special hazards.
An abstract,
not more than 2 pages in length, must be submitted by October
30, 2003 to Professor E.S. Kim at eskim505@hotmail.com.
Notification of acceptance of a paper for presentation at
the Symposium will be made by November 30, 2003 and the
full paper must be received by January 31, 2004. Information
on the Symposium venue, accommodations and travel details
as well as instructions to authors can be found on the web
site http://www.kifse.org
PLEASE
NOTE: This
article has been updated since it was listed in the hardcopy
of the Newsletter in July. The Dates and Location were originally;
April
19-22, 2004 in Seoul but
have been changed to the information above.
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| 5th
International Conference on Wood and Fire Safety
The
5th International Conference on Wood and Fire Safety will
be held May 9-14, 2004 in the High Tatras, Slovak Republic.
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum whereby
multi-disciplinary issues and recent research related to
fire safety of wood products and assemblies are presented
and discussed. A web site is to be established at http://www.wfs.tuzvo.sk.
In the interim information can be obtained from wfs@wfs.tuzvo.sk.
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Call for Papers: 10th Interflam Conference
A
Call for Papers has been issued for the 10th Interflam Conference
on fire science and engineering, which will be held July
5-7, 2004 at the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot Watt
University, Scotland. Interflam is the longest established
international fire research conference and has been held
every 3 years since 1979.
An abstract,
not more than 2 pages in length, must be submitted by November
1, 2003. Notification of acceptance of a paper for presentation
at the Symposium will be made by January 31, 2004 and the
full paper must be received by May 5, 2004. For more details
concerning the conference, visit the conference web site
at
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/intercomm/html/events/interflam04.htm
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