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Sunday, 9 February 2014

9:00
Registration (Location) Room 1 Wildfires and Climate Change Room 2 Room 3 Multi-Objective Fire Safety System Design Education Economy, Sustainability and Aesthetics Workshop Panelists : Patrick van Hees (Lund University, Sweden), Jose Torero (University of Queensland, Australia) and Kathy Notarianni (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Workshop Session 1 (10:00 - 12:00)

(10:00 - 12:00) Workshop Panlists : Naian Liu (University of Workshop Panelists : David Barber (Arup,
Science and Technology of China, China), Mark A. Finney (USDA Forest Service, USA), Samuel L. Manzello (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA), Hiroshi Hayasaka (Hokkaido University, Japan), Dominique Morvan (Aix-Marseille University, France) and Albert Simeoni (University of Edinburgh, UK) Australia), Margaret Simonson MacNamee (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden) and Brian Meacham (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

12:00 13:00
Room 1 Benchmarking/Data Sharing Room 2 Evacuation Modeling Issues and Challenges Workshop Panelists : Arturo Cuesta (University of Cantabria, Spain), Rita Fahy (National Fire Protection Association, USA), Ed Galea (University of Greenwich, UK), Enrico Ronchi (Lund University, Sweden), Weiguo Song (University of Science and Technology of China, China).

Workshop Session 2 (13:00 - 15:00)

(13:00 - 15:00) Workshop Panelists : Michael Spearpoint

(University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Assaad Masri (University of Sydney, Australia), Anthony Hamins (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA), Sergey Dorofeev (FM Global, USA), Kevin McGrattan (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA), Ed Galea (University of Greenwich, UK)

15:30 - 18:00 IAFSS Executive Committee Meeting (Committee only; Location) 18:30 - 21:00 18:00 21:00 Welcome Reception

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Monday, 10 February 2014

7:20 8:05 - 8:35 8:40 - 9:30
Registration (Location) Opening Ceremony (Welcome address by U of Canterbury Official; Opening address by IAFSS Chair; Opening address by Symposium Session Chair: W-K. Chow Howard W. Emmons Invited Plenary Lecture Enclosure and Facade Fires: Physics and Applications Michael Delichatsios, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Session Chair: Charley Fleischmann Invited Lecture # 1 Revisiting the Compartment Fire Jose L. Torero, University of Queensland, Australia Session Chair: W.-K. Chow

9:35 - 10:15

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 2 Structural Fire Performance Session Chairs: Luke Bisby, Andrew Buchanan Effective Stress Method to be Used in Beam Finite Elements to Take Local Instabilities into Account Room 3 Evacuation and Human Behavior Session Chairs: Ed Galea, Weiguo Song Utilization of the Haddon Matrix to Organize Factors of Survived Accidental Residential Fires: Frequencies for Human, Agent, and Environment-related Variables Lin Xiong, Michelle Ball and Dorothy Bruck Victoria University, Australia Real-Time Stochastic Evacuation Models for Decision Support in Actual Emergencies Arturo Cuesta, Daniel Alvear, Orlando Abreu and Delfn Sili University of Cantabria, Spain

Room 1 Ignition and Flame Spread Session Chairs: Guillermo Rein, Elizabeth Weckman (10:50 - 11:15) Radiation Characteristics of Corrugated Cardboard Flames

Morning Session 1 (10:50 - 12:05)

Dong Zeng, Marcos Chaos, Mohammed Khan and Sergey Dorofeev FM Global, USA (11:15 - 11:40) A Model for Oxidative Pyrolysis of Corrugated Cardboard Mollie Semmes, Xuan Liu, Mark McKinnon, Stanislav Stoliarov and Artur Witkowski University of Maryland, USA, and University of Central Lancashire, UK. (11:40 - 12:05) Pyrolysis and Oxidation of Cardboard

Jean-Marc Franssen, Baptiste Cowez and Thomas Gernay University of Lige, Belgium Real Fire Test on Concrete Columns and Post-tensioned Slabs Ian Bennetts and Warren South Swinburne University of Technology, and Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia, Australia

Gaurav Agarwal, Gang Liu and Brian Lattimer Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

12:05 13:30 Lunch - (Location)

Room 1 Ignition and Flame Spread Session Chairs: Michael Gollner, Kevin McGrattan (13:30 - 13:55) Effects of Controlled Ventilation Conditions during the Combustibility Assessment of Materials from a Controlled Atmosphere Cone Calorimeter Damien Marquis, Eric Guillaume and Anyce Camillo Laboratoire National de Mtrologie et d'Essais, France

A Comparison of an Explicit and an Implicit An Arbitrary Polynomial Chaos-Based Transient Strain Formulation for Concrete Approach to Analyzing the Impacts of in Fire Design Parameters on Evacuation Time under Uncertainty David Lange and Robert Jansson Qimiao Xie, Shouxiang Lu, Daniel Cstola SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, and Jan L.M. Hensen Sweden University of Science and Technology of China, China, and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Room 2 Room 3 Structural Fire Performance Evacuation and Human Behavior Session Chairs: David Lange, Brian Lattimer Session Chairs: Arturo Cuesta, Ed Galea Predictions of Transport Accident Fires Using Coupled Structural Dynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics The Effect of Raised Walkway Design on Evacuation Behaviour in Rail Tunnels

Alexander Brown, Kurt Metzinger and Gregory Wagner Sandia National Laboratories, USA

(13:55 - 14:20) Feasibility of Particle Imaging Velocimetry Parametric Analysis of Heat Transfer in
in Cone Calorimeter Experiments Simon Delcour, Franois-Xavier Ouf, Damien Hbert, Alexis Coppalle, Nathalie Azema, Laurent Ferry, Jos-Marie LopezCuesta, Franois Salm, Martine Talbaut and Jrme Yon Institut de Radioprotection et de Sret Nuclaire, and Ecole des Mines dAls, and Universit de Rouen, France (14:20 - 14:45) Spectral Aspects of Bench-Scale Flammability Testing: Application to Hardwood Pyrolysis Marcos Chaos FM Global, USA Gypsum Wallboard Partitions Morgan Bruns and Kuldeep Prasad National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Frida Vermina Lundstrom, Jenny Ahlfont and Daniel Nilsson Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, Denmark, and Lund University, Sweden Microscopic Character and Movement Consistency of Pedestrian Group: an Experimental Study in Campus Xiaoge Wei, Xu Mai, Wei Lv, Weiguo Song and Yongming Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, China

Afternoon Session 1 (13:30 - 14:45)

Residual Constitutive Behavior of Aluminum Alloys after Fire Exposure

14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 1 Ignition and Flame Spread Session Chairs: Michael Gollner, Kevin McGrattan

A Validation Data-Set and Suggested Validation Protocol for Ship Evacuation Models Patrick Summers, Brian Lattimer and Scott Ed Galea, Steven Deere, Robert Brown Case and Lazaros Filippidis Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University of Greenwich, UK University, USA Room 2 Room 3 Structural Fire Performance Evacuation and Human Behavior Session Chairs: David Lange, Brian Lattimer Session Chairs: Arturo Cuesta, Ed Galea

on Session 2 5 - 16:30)

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15:15 15:40

Sensitivity of Heat of Reaction for Polyurethane Foams Dennis Pau, Charles Fleischmann, Michael Spearpoint and Kai-Yuan Li University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and University of Science and Technology of China, China

Fire Tests on Loaded Cross-laminated Timber Wall and Floor Elements

Experimental and Survey Studies on the Effectiveness of Dynamic Signage Systems Ed Galea, Hui Xie and Peter Lawrence University of Greenwich, UK

Afternoon Session 2 (15:15 - 16:30)

Michael Klippel, Claude Leyder, Andrea Frangi, Mario Fontana, Frank Lam and Ario Ceccotti ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and University of British Columbia, Canada, and Trees and Timber Institute, Italy (15:40 - 16:05) Gpyro3D: A Three Dimensional Generalized Simplified Calculation for Fire Performance Pyrolysis Model of Post-Tensioned Timber Box Beams

An Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding Elderly Dwelling Fire Fatalities and the Barriers to Implementing Fire Safety Strategies among this Group Amy Harpur, Karen Boyce and Nigel McConnell University of Ulster, UK The Characteristics of Blind and Visually Impaired People Evacuation in Case of Fire Dmitry Samoshin and Roman Istratov Academy of State Fire Service of Russia, Russia

Chris Lautenberger Reax Engineering Inc., USA

(16:05 - 16:30) Modeling of the Pyrolysis of Plywood

Exposed to Heat Fluxes under Cone Calorimeter Talal Fateh, Franck Richard and Thomas Rogaume Institut PPRIME, France

16:30 22:00

Reuben Costello, Anthony Abu, Peter Moss and Andrew Buchanan University of Canterbury, New Zealand Novel Testing to Study the Performance of Intumescent Coatings under Non-Standard Heating Regimes Angus Elliott, Alastair Temple, Cristian Maluk and Luke Bisby University of Edinburgh, UK

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Tuesday, 11 February 2014

8:00 8:45 - 9:25
Registration (Location) Invited Lecture # 2 Computer Modeling for Fire and Smoke Dynamics: a Help or a Burden? Bart Merci, University of Gent, Belgium Session Chair: Arnaud Trouve Room 1 Room 2 Ignition and Flame Spread Structural Fire Performance Session Chairs: Marcos Chaos, Eric Session Chairs: Morgan Bruns, Mario Guillaume Fontana Correlations for Evaluation of Flame Spread Experimental Study on Thermal Breakage over an Inclined Fuel Surface of Four-Point Fixed Glass Faade Xinyan Huang and Michael Gollner Imperial College London, UK, and University of Maryland, USA Yu Wang, Qingsong Wang, Guangzheng Shao, Haodong Chen, Yanfei Su, Jinhua Sun, Linghui He, Jennifer X. Wen, Ruowen Zong and Kim Meow Liew University of Science and Technology of China, China, and University of Warwick, UK, and City University of Hong Kong, China An Experimental Investigation of Structural Fire Behaviour of a Rigid Steel Frame Takeo Hirashima, Kazuma Okuwaki, Xuansu Zhao, Yuki Sagami and Koji Toyoda Chiba University, and General Building Research Corporation, Japan

(9:30 - 9:55)

Room 3 Fire Suppression Session Chairs: Haukur Ingason, Andre Marshall Numerical Simulation of Sprinkler Suppression of Rack Storage Fires Yi Wang, Karl Meredith, Xiangyang Zhou, Prateep Chatterjee, Yibing Xin, Marcos Chaos, Ning Ren and Sergey Dorofeev FM Global, USA

Morning Session 1 (9:30 - 10:20)

(9:55 - 10:20) Effects of Sample Width and Sidewalls on

Downward Flame Spread over XPS Slabs Weiguang An, Huahua Xiao, Jinhua Sun, K.M. Liew, Weigang Yan, Yang Zhou, Lin Jiang and Xinjie Huang University of Science and Technology of China, and City University of Hong Kong, and Anhui University of Technology, China

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 2 Post-Earthquake Fires Session Chairs: Rita Fahy, Brian Meacham Room 3 Fire Suppression Session Chairs: Haukur Ingason, Andre Marshall A Free Surface Model of a Jet Impinging On a Sprinkler Head

Room 1 Ignition and Flame Spread Session Chairs: Marcos Chaos, Eric Guillaume (10:50 - 11:15) Effects of Thickness and Ignition Location on Flame Spread Rates in Furniture Calorimeter Tests of Polyurethane Foam Luke Robson, David Torvi, Matthew Obach and Elizabeth Weckman University of Saskatchewan, and University of Waterloo, Canada (11:15 - 11:40) Ignition Temperature and Surface Emissivity of Heterogeneous Loosely Packed Materials from Pyrometric Measurements Bogdan Dlugogorski, Samorn Hirunpraditkoon and Eric Kennedy The University of Newcastle, Australia

Morning Session 2 (10:50 - 12:05)

Study on Fires Following the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake based on the Questionnaire Survey to Fire Departments in Affected Areas Ai Sekizawa and Katsuaki Sasaki Taylor Myers, Andre Marshall and Tokyo University of Science, and Oyo Howard Baum Corporation, Japan University of Maryland, USA

Analysis of Ignitions Following 2011 Tohoku An Experimental Study on Attenuation of Earthquake Using Kawasumi Model Radiant Heat Flux from Flame through Water Droplets Keisuke Himoto, Masumi Yamada and Tomoaki Nishino Kyoto University, and Kobe University, Japan Research Analysis of The Realistic Evacuation Behaviour from Tsunami and Fire in the Aftermath of The Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 Yuki Akizuki, Akihiko Hokugo and Tomoaki Nishino University of Toyama, and Kobe University, Japan Room 2 Post-Earthquake Fires Session Chairs: Rita Fahy, Brian Meacham Fire Performance of Full-Scale Building Subjected to Earthquake Motions: Test Specimen, Seismic Motions and Performance of Fire Protection Systems Jin Kyung Kim, Brian Meacham, Haejun Park, Tara Hutchinson and Elide Pantoli Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, and Olsson Fire & Risk, Australia, and University of California San Diego, USA Fire Performance of Full-Scale Building Subjected to Earthquake Motions: Fire Test Program and Outcomes Kiyoto Usui and Ken Matsuyama Nohmi Bosai Ltd., and Tokyo University of Science, Japan Characterization of Fire Suppression of an Idealized Commodity Using Uniform Water Fluxes Yibing Xin and Karl Meredith FM Global, USA

(11:40 - 12:05)

12:05 13:30 Lunch - (Location)

Room 1 Compartment Fire Dynamics Session Chairs: Brian Lattimer, Michael Spearpoint (13:30 - 13:55) An Application Method of Free Burn HRR Data to Room Fire Scenarios

Room 3 Fire Suppression Session Chairs: Andre Marshall, Yibing Xin Physical Scaling of Water Mist Suppression of Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures

Afternoon Session 1 (13:30 - 14:45)

Shintani Yusuke, Nagaoka Tsutomu, Deguchi Yoshikazu and Harada Kazunori Takenaka Corporation, and Kyoto University, Japan

Hong-Zeng Yu FM Global, USA

(13:55 - 14:20) Compartment Fire Temperature a New

Simple Calculation Method

Combining Bromofluoropropene with Water Mist for Suppressing Deep Seated Wood Crib Fires

Afternoon Session 1 (13:30 - 14:45)

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Ulf Wickstrm and Alexandra Bystrm Lule University of Technology, and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden

Haejun Park, Brian Meacham and Jin Kyung Kim Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, and Olsson Fire & Risk, Australia

(14:20 - 14:45) Fire Development in Different Scales of

Train Carriages

14:45 - 16:45 Poster Session I (Location) and Coffee Break (Location) 16:45 22:00

Basic Experiment on the Heat Release Property of a Tsunami Fire Fueled by Debris and Fuel Oil Spilled on the Sea Surface Following Tsunami Ying Zhen Li, Haukur Ingason and Anders Tomoaki Nishino, Hidekazu Suzuki and Lnnermark Tsuneto Tsuchihashi SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Kobe University, and General Building Sweden Research Corporation, Japan

Xiaomin Ni, Wanki Chow, Shaogang Zhang, Mei Zhao, Zhong Zheng and Xishi Wang University of Science and Technology of China, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Experimental Study on Suppression of Methane Explosion Containing Obstacles with Ultra-Fine Water Mist Hongli Xu, Yuan Li, Pei Zhu, Wenxi Qin and Xishi Wang University of Science and Technology of China, China

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Wednesday, 12 February 2014

8:00 8:45 - 9:25
Registration (Location) Invited Lecture # 3 Layer Nano-Fillersa Review on The Fire Safety of Polymeric Nanocomposites and the Mechanism Yuan Hu, University of Science and Technology of China, China Session Chair: Yaping He Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Compartment Fire Dynamics Flame Retardants and Advanced Fire Suppression Materials Session Chairs: Hugues Pretrel, Yi Wang Session Chairs: Anna Stec, Stanislav Session Chairs: Karl Meredith, Vasily Stoliariov Novozhilov Carbon Monoxide Production During Fire Performance Evaluation of Different Pre-Detection of Kitchen Fires due to AutoUnderventilated Fires in Long Corridors Resins for Potential Application in Fire Ignition of Cooking Oil and LPG Leakage in Resistant Structural Marine Composites Indian Kitchens Sebastian Ukleja, Michael Delichatsios, Jianping Zhang and Mathieu Suzanne University of Ulster, UK, and Central Laboratory of Police Prefecture, France, and Centrum Techniki Okretowej, Poland Baljinder Kandola and Latha Krishnan University of Bolton, UK Akshay Jain, Prateek Nyati, Nakul Nuwal, Adnan Ansari, Chinmay Ghoroi and Pravinray D. Gandhi Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, and Underwriters Laboratories, India, and Underwriters Laboratories, USA Experimental Evaluation on Performance of Open Kitchen Fire Suppression Systems W.K. Chow and Xiaomin Ni The Hong Kong Polytechnic Unviersity, and University of Science and Technology of China, China Room 3 Fire Suppression

(9:30 - 9:55) Morning Session 1 (9:30 - 10:20)

(9:55 - 10:20) Fuel Volatility Effects on Pool Fires in

Compartments with Low Ventilation Gordon Andrews, Herodotos Phylaktou and Omar Aljumaiah University of Leeds, UK

Intumescent Silicone-Based Coatings for the Fire Protection of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites Serge Bourbigot, Bastien Gardelle and Sophie Duquesne University of Lille, France

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 1 Compartment Fire Dynamics

Morning Session 2 (10:50 - 12:05)

Room 2 Flame Retardants and Advanced Materials Session Chairs: Hugues Pretrel, Yi Wang Session Chairs: Anna Stec, Stanislav Stoliariov (10:50 - 11:15) Experimental Approach to Estimate Species Fire Protective Performance of Concentrations in a Compartment Fire Intumescent Paint and Ablative Elastomer Used for High Pressure Hydrogen Composite Cylinder Julie Lassus, Lo Courty, E. Studer, Jean- Duy Quang Dao, Thomas Rogaume, Pierre Garo and P. Aine Jocelyn Luche, Franck Richard, Lucas Institut PPRIME, and Commissariat Bustamante Valencia and Sidonie Ruban lEnergie Atomique, and AREVA, France Institut PPRIME, and Air Liquide, France, and Duy Tn University, Vietnam

(11:15 - 11:40) Mathematical Modelling of Pool Fire

Burning Rates in a Full-Scale Ventilated Tunnel Hui Ying Wang and Hatem Sahraoui Institut PPRIME, France

Session Chairs: Karl Meredith, Vasily Novozhilov Fire Testing a New Fluorine-Free AFFF Based on a Novel Class of Environmentally Sound High Performance Siloxane Surfactants Ralf Hetzer, Felix Kmmerlen, Dirk Blunk and Kai Wirz Bundeswehr Research Institute for Protective Technologies and NBCProtection, and University of Cologne, Germany Role of Montmorillonite for Enhancing Fire Water Spray Dynamics in Fire Flows Retardancy of Intumescent PLA Gaelle Fontaine, Antoine Gallos and Serge Vasily Novozhilov Bourbigot University of Ulster, UK Ecole Nationale Suprieure de Chimie, France Flame Retardant Polyurethanes Based on Novel Phosphonamidate Additives Sabyasachi Gaan, Matthias Neisius, Olivia Cuchere, Shuyu Liang and Henri Mispreuve EMPA, and Foam Partner, Switzerland

(11:40 - 12:05) Soot Deposition and Gravitational Settling

Modeling and the Impact of Particle Size and Agglomeration Jason Floyd, Kristopher Overholt and Ofodike Ezekoye Hughes Associates, Inc., and National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Texas at Austin, USA Room 1 Compartment Fire Dynamics

12:05 13:30 Lunch - (Location)

Room 2 Flame Retardants and Advanced Materials Session Chairs: Bogdan Dlugogorski, Bart Session Chairs: Serge Bourbigot, Baljinder Merci Kandola (13:30 - 13:55) The Correlation between Carbon Monoxide Experimental and Numerical Study of and Hydrogen Cyanide in Fire Effluents of Thermal Stability and Fire Performance of Flame Retarded Polymers Brominated and Halogen-Free Flame Retardants in Glass-Fibre Reinforced Poly(butylene terephthalate) Shirley Molyneux, Anna Stec and T Richard Hull University of Central Lancashire, UK Mathieu Suzanne, Alwar Ramani, Sebastian Ukleja, Maurice McKee, Jianping Zhang, Michael Delichatsios and Dimitri Bakirtzis University of Ulster, UK, and Central Laboratory of Police Prefecture, France Fundamental Flame Spread and Toxicity Evaluation of Fire Retarded Polymers

Room 3 Wildland Fires Session Chairs: Naian Liu, Albert Simeoni Convection Ignition of Live Forest Fuels

Sara Mcallister and Mark Finney USDA Forest Service, USA

Afternoon Session 1 (13:30 - 14:45)

(13:55 - 14:20) Fire Toxicity Assessment: Comparison of

Asphyxiant Yields from Laboratory and Large Scale Flaming Fires

Impact of Solid Fuel Particles Size upon the Propagation of a Surface Fire through a Homogeneous Vegetation Layer

Afternoon Session 1 (13:30 - 14:45)

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Anna Stec, T Richard Hull, David Purser and Jennifer Purser University of Central Lancashire, UK

(14:20 - 14:45) Experimental Study on the Characteristics

of Temperature Field of Fire Room under Stack Effect in a Scaled High-rise Building Model Wenxi Shi, Jie Ji, Jinhua Sun, Siuming Lo, Linjie Li and Xiangyong Yuan University of Science and Technology of China, and City University of Hong Kong, China

14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 1 Compartment Fire Dynamics Session Chairs: Bogdan Dlugogorski, Bart Merci A Simplified Relation Between Hot Layer Height and Opening Mass Flow Nils Johansson and Patrick van Hees Lund University, Sweden

Mathieu Suzanne, Sebastian Ukleja, Michael Delichatsios, Jianping Zhang and Bjorn Karlsson University of Ulster, UK, and Central Laboratory of Police Prefecture, France, and University of Iceland, Iceland Influence of Hydroxyl Iron Phosphate Particles on the Thermal Stability and Combustible Properties of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Lei Wang, Chenlu Bao, Wei Yang, Yuan Hu, Lei Song, Richard K. K. Yuen and Zhou Gui University of Science and Technology of China, and City University of Hong Kong, China Room 2 Flame Retardants and Advanced Materials Session Chairs: Serge Bourbigot, Baljinder Kandola Effect of Nickel-Containing Ligand on Thermal Stability and Combustible Property of Poly(lactic acid) Xueying Shan, Siuming Lo, Qilong Tai, Zhou Gui, Yuan Hu and Saihua Jiang University of Science and Technology of China, and City University of Hong Kong, China Thermal Degradation and Flame-Retardant Properties of Epoxy Acrylate Resins Modified with a Novel Flame Retardant Containing Phosphorous and Nitrogen

Dominique Morvan and Aymeric Lamorlette Aix-Marseille University, France

Exposing Decking Assemblies to Continuous Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers Samuel Manzello and Sayaka Suzuki National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, and National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Japan

Room 3 Wildland Fires Session Chairs: Naian Liu, Albert Simeoni A Model for Combustion of Firebrands of Various Shapes Howard Baum and Arvind Atreya University of Maryland, and University of Michigan, USA

15:15 15:40 Afternoon Session 2 (15:15 - 16:05)

(15:40 - 16:05) A Probabilistic Model for the Fallout Area

of Single Glazing under Radiant Heat Exposure

Flaming Ignition Behavior of Hot Steel and Aluminum Spheres Landing in Cellulose Fuel Beds

16:05 22:00

Daniel Wong, Kaiyuan Li and Michael Spearpoint Olsson Fire & Risk, Australia, and University of Science and Technology of China, China, and University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Xiaodong Qian, Qilong Tai, Lei Song, Yuan Casey Zak, James Urban and Carlos Hu and Richard K. K. Yuen Fernandez-Pello University of Science and Technology of University of California Berkeley, USA China, and City University of Hong Kong, China

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Thursday, 13 February 2014

8:00 8:45 - 9:25
Registration (Location) Invited Lecture # 4 Enabling the Investigation of Structure Vulnerabilities to Wind-Driven Firebrand Showers in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Samuel L Manzello, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Session Chair: Patrick van Hees Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Compartment Fire Dynamics Flame Retardants and Advanced Wildland Fires Materials Session Chairs: Alexis Coppalle, Jason Floyd Session Chairs: Yuan Hu, Franck Richard Session Chairs: Dominique Morvan, Sayaka Suzuki Numerical Simulations of Strong-Plume Covalent Functionalization of Graphene From Bushfire to All-Hazards Research : A Driven Ceiling Flows Oxide with Flame Retardant and its Effect Journey in Two Parts. on Thermal Stability and Flame Retardancy of Epoxy Composites Prateep Chatterjee, Karl Meredith, Benjamin Ditch, Hong-Zeng Yu, Yi Wang and Francesco Tamanini FM Global, USA Weizhao Hu, Lei Song, Jian Wang, Yuan Hu and Ping Zhang University of Science and Technology of China, and Southwest University of Science and Technology, China Fire Testing of External Combustible Ship Surfaces Richard Thornton Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Australia

(9:30 - 9:55)

Morning Session 1 (9:30 - 10:20)

(9:55 - 10:20) Experimental Study on Temperature

Property along a Tunnel Axis with Flat Ceiling in Natural Ventilation Yasushi Oka, Hideyuki Oka and Osamu Imazeki Yokohama National University, and National Maritime Research Institute, and Kajima Corporation, Japan

Use of the Extreme Value Analysis in Determining Annual Probability of Exceedance for Bushfire Protection Design

Franz Evegren, Michael Rahm, Magnus Grahame Douglas, Yaping He, Xiang Yang Arvidson and Tommy Hertzberg and E.Charles Morris SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, University of Western Sydney, Australia Sweden

10:20 - 10:50

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 1 Room 2 Compartment Fire Dynamics Fire Risk Analysis and Statistics Session Chairs: Alexis Coppalle, Jason Floyd Session Chairs: Takeyoshi Tanaka, Partick van Hees Required Travel Distance and Exit width for (10:50 - 11:15) Smoke Induced Flow in Two Rooms Mechanically Ventilated and Linked with a rooms determined by risk-based Horizontal Vent Type Opening evacuation safety design method Hugues Pretrel, Kevin Varrall, Laurent Audouin and Olivier Vauquelin Institut de Radioprotection et de Sret Nuclaire , and Aix-Marseille Universit, France Yuka Ikehata, Jun'Ichi Yamaguchi, Daisaku Nii and Takeyoshi Tanaka Taisei Corporation, and Obayashi Corporation, and National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, and Kyoto University, Japan Comparative Evaluation Method for Fire Safety Design of Large Storage Spaces

Room 3 Wildland Fires Session Chairs: Dominique Morvan, Sayaka Suzuki Effect of Particle Size on Pyrolysis Kinetics of Forest Fuels in Nitrogen

Huichang Niu and Naian Liu University of Science and Technology of China, China

Morning Session 2 (10:50 - 12:05)

(11:15 - 11:40) Numerical Simulations of a MechanicallyVentilated Multi-Compartment Fire

Tarek Beji, Frederick Bonte and Bart Merci Zhenkun Wu, Haihang Li, Yaping He, Ghent University, and Bel V, Belgium Dechuang Zhou and Jian Wang University of Science and Technology of China, and Anhui General Fire Brigade, China, and University of Western Sydney, Australia Experimental Study on Jet-A Pool Fire at Development of Fire Scenarios for Car (11:40 - 12:05) High Altitude Parking Buildings using Risk Analysis Zhihui Zhou, Yao Wei, Haihang Li, Chao- Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir and Michael Hsin Lin, Joe Yin, Ted Wu, Oliver C. Meier Spearpoint and Jian Wang University of Canterbury, New Zealand University of Technology and Science of China, and Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and The Boeing Company, USA, and City University of Hong Kong, China

An Experimental Study Evaluating the Burning Dynamics of Pitch Pine Needle Beds Using the FPA Jan Thomas, Albert Simeoni, Michael Gallagher and Nicholas Skowronski Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and USDA Forest Service, USA Fire Whirl due to Interaction between Line Fire and Cross Wind Kuibin Zhou, Naian Liu, Panpan Yin, Xieshang Yuan and Juncheng Jiang University of Science and Technology of China, and Nanjing University of Technology, China

12:05 13:30 Lunch - (Location) 13:30 - 14:45 IAFSS Membership Business Meeting (Location) Poster Session (Location) and Coffee Break (Location) 14:45 - 16:45 IAFSS Committee Meeting (Committee only; Location) 16:45 22:00

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Friday, 14 February 2014

8:00 8:45 - 9:25
Registration (Location) Invited Lecture # 5 {Presentation Title TBD} John Hare, Holmes Consulting Group, New Zealand Session Chair: Piotr Tofilo Room 1 Room 2 Arson Fire Risk Analysis and Statistics Session Chairs: W.K. Chow, Margaret Session Chairs: Ricky Carvel, George Simonson McNamee Hadjisophocleous A New Method for Quantifying Fire Growth Fire Model Validation Eight Lessons Rates Using Statistical and Empirical Data Learned Applied to Determine the Effect of Arson Martin Nilsson, Nils Johansson and Partick Kevin McGrattan, Richard Peacock and van Hees Kristopher Overholt Lund University, Sweden National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

(9:30 - 9:55)

Room 3 Wildland Fires Session Chairs: Samuel Manzello, Sara McAllister Experimental Research on Upslope Fire and Jump Fire

(9:55 - 10:20) Technical Measures to Prevent and

Mitigate the Consequences of Arson in School Buildings

Finding the Probability of Doors Being Open Using a Continuous Position Logger

Xiaodong Xie, Naian Liu, Domingos X. Viegas and Jorge R. Raposo University of Science and Technology of China, China, and University of Coimbra, Portugal Towards Predictive Simulation of Wildfire Spread at Regional Scale Using EnsembleBased Data Assimilation to Correct the Fire Front Position Mlanie C. Rochoux, Charlotte Emery, Sophie Ricci, Bndicte Cuenot and Arnaud Trouv CERFACS, and CNRS, and Ecole Centrale Paris, France, and University of Maryland, USA Room 3 Large-Scale Fire Hazards Session Chairs: Grunde Jomaas, Vasily Novozhilov Prediction of Toxic Emissions from Chemical Fire and Explosion

Morning Session 1 (9:30 - 10:20)

10:20 - 10:50

Nils Johansson, Patrick van Hees, Margaret Simonson McNamee, Petra Andersson, Robert Jansson and Michael Strmgren Lund Univeristy, and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden

Kevin Frank, Michael Spearpoint and Steve Weddell University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Coffee Break (Location)

Room 1 Fire Hazards in Electrical Equipment Session Chairs: W.K. Chow, Christopher Wieczorek (10:50 - 11:15) Electrical Receptacles - Overheating, Arcing, and Melting Matthew Benfer and Daniel Gottuk Hughes Associates Inc., USA

Room 2 Fire Risk Analysis and Statistics Session Chairs: Ricky Carvel, George Hadjisophocleous Overview of Problems and Solutions in Fire Protection Engineering of Wind Turbines

Morning Session 2 (10:50 - 12:05)

Solomon Uadiale, Evi Urban, Ricky Carvel, N. Albert Moussa and Vijay Devarakonda David Lange and Guillermo Rein BlazeTech Corp., USA The University of Edinburgh, UK, and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden, and Imperial College London, UK Simulating Vented Maize Starch Explosions in a 236 m3 Silo

(11:15 - 11:40) Estimating the Time-of-Involvement of Bulk Assessing the Level of Safety for
Packed Lithium-Ion Batteries in a Warehouse Storage Fire Benjamin Ditch, Geary Yee and Marcos Chaos FM Global, USA Performance Based and Prescriptive Structural Fire Design of Steel Structures

(11:40 - 12:05) Effects of Cable Fire Smoke on Electronic

Boards Laurent Gay, Robert Gracia, Sylvre Mongruel and Eric Wizenne Electricit de France, France

Gianluca De Sanctis, Michael H. Faber and Trygve Skjold Mario Fontana GexCon, and University of Bergen, Norway ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, A new Experimental Rig for Oil Burning on Water Results for Crude and Pure Oils Nicholas L. Brogaard, Martin X. Srensen, Janne Fritt-Rasmussen, Ali S. Rangwala and Grunde Jomaas Technical University of Denmark, and Aarhus University, Denmark, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

12:05 13:30 Lunch - (Location)