Fire Science Show
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFire Science Show is connecting fire researchers and practitioners with a society of fire engineers, firefighters, architects, designers and all others, who are genuinely interested in creating a fire-safe future. Through interviews with a diverse group of experts, we present the history of our field as well as the most novel advancements. We hope the Fire Science Show becomes your weekly source of fire science knowledge and entertainment. Produced in partnership with the Diamond Sponsor of the show - OFR Consultants
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102 - Fire Safe Design Competent Architect with Michael Woodrow
May 24, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBWe all agree competencies are key to fire safety. We have discussed this. We have argued about this. We have come up with decent sets of core competencies, course curricula and numerous courses and modules that help us be competent in what we are doing. This podcast is to keep me and you competent in what we are doing. But this is insufficient in the modern world. Because it is not just us who need to be competent. Today I've invited Dr Michael Woodrow from UCL to talk about what fire comp...
101 - The Society of Fire Protection Engineers with Chris Jeleniewicz
May 17, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBWhat is the Society of Fire Protection Engineers? I just got a really good answer from the Interim CEO Chris Jeleniwicz. It is our profession. It is us. With this important definition sorted, we dig into what SFPE is doing (and more importantly - how it is doing). If you ever wondered what the SFPE Handbook writing process looks like and what will you find in the next edition, we may have some answers for you. If you wonder why SFPE is turning its guidelines into standards and how this fut...
100 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 3 - Smoke plumes (and other flow phenomena) with Wojciech
May 10, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBThis week we cover the fundamentals of smoke flow (proliferation!), entrainment and smoke plumes. All the basics that impact the spread of the smoke in our buildings. You will learn: the ideal gas assumption for a smoke mixture turbulent nature of fire-induced flows axisymmetric plume models and their origins spill plumes window and door plumes basics of smoke control If you would like to read up more, please resort to: Review of plume models Enclosure Fire Dynamics - Karlsson, Qunt...
099 - Electric vehicle fires in tunnels with Peter Sturm
May 03, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBDo you have any idea how bad the tunnel fire will be if there is an EV involved? That is a question I hear a lot, way more often than I would like. And usually, my answers do not get approval. I guess telling people "doesn't matter, passenger vehicles are not a concern" does not rank very well against all the media chaos related to challenges with these new energy carriers. Even today I've witnessed a random conversation of my father with a friend, where they discussed the future, EVs and h...
QA4 - Wojciech in Smart Firefighting podcast episode 151 - fire science, innovation and built environment
April 26, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week in place of a normal episode I would like to share an interview I gave to my friend Kevin Sofen in his podcast. In this episode I am interviewed by Kevin on the science of fire, how I understand the built environment and the challenges it brings. Kevin asks me some really tough questions, like what the fire-safe world is, and how to innovate in space of the fire engineering. I have highly enjoyed this discussion, and if you have not heard it at the Smart Firefighting Podcast, I hop...
098 - Digital innovation in built environment with Michael Strömgren
April 19, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBInnovation is a big world. A digital innovation sounds even bigger. But it is in fact our reality - we live in a world of constant change and "improvements". Many of those come to us in form of digital technologies, information processing or simply computer codes and tools. And I would say more often than not, these are not very helpful... If you share this point of view with me, you will rejoice in this podcast episode. I have invited Michael Strömgren who is the Chief Innovation Officer a...
097 - Smoke toxicity (Part 2) Asphyxiants and irritants with David Purser
April 12, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBThis episode is the 2nd part of interview with Professor David Purser, this year recipient of IAFSS'14 Emmons Plenary Lecture. If you have not seen it, I would highly encourage you to first listen to the Part 1, which sets the context of the discussion here. In Part 1 we have talked a lot about the toxic hazards and how the production of toxicants has evolved together with fire loads. We have also gone quite deep into the toxicity of CO. In part 2, we cover the combined effects of asphyxian...
096 - Smoke toxicity (Part 1) Why fires used to be less toxic in 1950's? with David Purser
April 05, 2023 04:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBI have to start with a word of warning, I am extremally hyped about this and upcoming episodes. I think for the first time I have recorded a podcast episode with a ratio of my commentary to the guest 1:5. This is because when you get Prof. David Purser to tell you about toxicology, there is not much to add. It is a story of the history of fire science, difficult discoveries and how a fire scientist had to combine knowledge from multiple fields into useful models. All of this is so that engin...
095 - An AI supported Fire Safety Engineer with Michael Kinsey
March 29, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBIt is the newest Internet craze. In my opinion, maybe even be the most disruptive tech since bitcoin or the Internet itself. And suddenly, we got a lot of very interesting conversations around, but I've lacked on oriented on the craft of Fire Protection Engineering. I'm obviously talking about generative AI and "chatbots". If you don't know this term, you should definitely read OFRs paper on that in recent SFPE Europe! Discussions on chatbots are in abundance, but people having first-hand...
094 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 5 - Compartment fires at NBS with James Quintiere
March 21, 2023 23:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBIn the fifth episode of mini-series 'Experiments that changed fire science' we cover the compartment fire experimental campaigns carried at NBS (now NIST) in 1970's and 1980's, with the maybe most famous of them all - the Steckler's room experiment. My guest - prof. James Quintiere touches on the experimental design, design choices and most importantly - the technology available to measure and how they made it work. If you would like to read more on this science, start up with these pieces ...
093 - The story of the golden era for the US fire science with James Quintiere
March 14, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBIt's finally here, the episode many of you were waiting for! Discussing the history of US fire movement with prof. James Quintiere from the University of Maryland. I often wondered what it felt like in the 1970's and 80's when some of the greatest discoveries of fire science were made. I mean discoveries like the instabilities that lead to flashover, the role of radiant heat transfer in compartment fire dynamics or the definition of the flows through openings... things so fundamental to us ...
092 - European Commission view on Performance Based FSE with Adamantia Athanasopoulou
March 07, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBIt seems we will not have EU Fire Code for at least a few more decades... Why is that? Because the people in power found out that it is not the most efficient thing to do it right now. And they found it through the power of research carried out by the European Commissions Joint Research Centre. I have invited Dr Adamantia Athanasopoulou from JCR to talk about their most recent report on the state of fire engineering (or performance-based fire engineering) in Europe, and it turned out to be a...
091 - Fire fundamentals pt 2 - Ignition with Rory Hadden
February 28, 2023 23:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWelcome to Fire Fundamentals pt. 2 with Rory Hadden. This episode is focused on the concept of ignition and its role in fire safety - as an event leading to fires, as something often investigated post-fire, but also as a vehicle to understand and measure general concepts of flammability of materials. In this episode we cover: ignition of gases, liquids and solids flammability limits flashpoint and fire point open and closed cup methods for ignition of liquids a little bit of pyrolysis ...
QA3 - Some Polish experiences with a year of war in Ukraine (interviewed by Arnold Dix)
February 24, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB1 year. This is insane the war is still going on and people are still hurt. This war in Ukraine significantly affected everyone in here, and in this episode, I get a chance to share some of my thoughts and background to the story (at least from my perspective). The story of this episode is that professor Dix was visiting Poland, and he was absolutely astonished by the situation here which did not match his expectations. On the conference he went literally 'I need to interview you on what i...
090 - Objective driven suppression system for Swedish tunnels with Ulf Lundström
February 22, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBIf you want to design a suppression system for a certain application, you have a lot of technical solutions to choose from and most likely a handful of codes to follow. It seems pretty straightforward for most applications, right? Well, it certainly was not like this for my today's guest and his application. The guest is Ulf Lundström of the Swedish Road Administration and his application was for road tunnels. But it is not that he just needed a sprinkler for that - he had a very specific se...
089 - Designing law by disasters (or not?) with Birgitte Messerschmidt
February 15, 2023 06:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBThere is no universal answer to the question of how law and testing regimes should be set up. Sometimes, we build up our law after a huge tragedy, making sure that the same cause will not be of harm in the future. Sometimes, we act proactively, trying to build robust solutions so that all foreseen threats are minimized... But it is never without a flaw. And even if the system is flawless, one can hardly expect today's solutions to answer the problems of the future world. But we need those l...
088 - Modeling fires of natural fuels with Eric Mueller
February 08, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBModelling ignition and fire of a tree branch with some leaves can't be that much different from modelling burning timber, right? Well, that is the kind of ignorance that can backfire on you... It certainly did on me! I have honestly not imagined how complicated fires of living (and dead) vegetation may be. How different heat transfer phenomena will have the leading impact (convective heating and cooling!) and how some of the assumptions I'm very used to may be useless. I guess I should have ...
087 - Structural FSE inspired by earthquake engineering with Negar Elhami Khorasani
February 01, 2023 06:00 - 58 minutes - 40.6 MBPerformance-based engineering or the use of probabilistic methods in building design are not inventions of Fire Safety Engineering. But we sometimes tend to act like we need to 'discover' and work out everything on our own. I strongly believe this is not the best way forward. And certainly not the cheapest one... Where I see a lot of potential is the adaptation of methods and models that work in other parts of civil engineering, that could act as solutions to issues related to fire. Such a ...
086 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 4 - Runnehamar tunnel with Haukur Ingason and Anders Lönnermark
January 25, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBWould you rather do 20 published experiments and take your impact factors, or make one that truly changed the world of fire science? Or maybe a different way, would you pursue something that is quick, easy and gives immediate credit over something hard, stressful and requiring maybe years to really change mainstream engineering? Sure, we all like to see ourselves as heroes, but in reality, very few of us have the courage and vision to pursue these hard-to-achieve goals. But it seems worth ...
085 - E-mobility and energy storage hazards with Adam Barowy
January 18, 2023 06:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBThree months ago I saw a video of some sort of an electric scooter going off in someone's residential building. That person had absolutely no chance of controlling that fire. I guess they have escaped, but it must have been severe fire damage to their home. Then, I listened to an excellent webinar by IFAB (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vir4_1qSSc) where for the first time I've seen useful measurements of HRR in such a fire... and they are horrifying. A fire in a range of ¬1 MW is in many ...
QA#2 - Turning podcast professional and the outcomes of the listener experience survey
January 16, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBWelcome to Questions & Answers session 02 covering the recent sponsorship opening in the podcast and how the podcast is turning from a hobby project to something more professional, and the summary of the 2022 listener experience survey. In this session you can find answers to the following questions: What does it mean to have podcast sponsorships for the podcast, the audience, me and the sponsors? 2:15 Summary of listener experience survey. 15:29 Types of content you would like to see in t...
084 - Industry lead research with Steve Gwynne and Mike Spearpoint
January 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBIn my first episode, I mentioned that I'm doing this podcast to preserve some amazing conversations and share them with a larger audience, as sometimes it is a huge waste of interesting thoughts that remain just between the few people participating in a talk. This part of the podcast mission is what I'm trying to achieve with today's episode. I had the privilege to be a part of an amazing discussion between fire science giants Steve Gwynne from Movement Strategies and Mike Spearpoint from OF...
083 - Fire fundamentals pt 1 - Combustion and flame with Rory Hadden
January 04, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBLet's start another mini-series! This time 'fire fundamentals' where we are going to learn some basics from the world's best. It is usually fascinating to do that! Not sure how you feel about it but I would kill for a chance to listen to the principles of fire science from Quintiere or Drysdale, even though I give these lectures on my own... In this first episode, I've invited dr Rory Hadden - an emerging legend of fire from the University of Edinburgh, to discuss some basics of flame and c...
082 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 3 - WTC Investigation with Kevin McGrattan
December 28, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBFire science is often accelerated by tragedies. The same goes for the tools we are using and the methods we know. In the early 2000's we already had some great tools, in fact, it was the era where the paradigm of fire modelling shifted from zone models to emerging CFD (listen to episode 81 to learn more about this shift). But these new capabilities soon went through a significant test - a terrorist attack in New York, bringing two iconic skyscrapers to collapse. An overwhelming media turmoil...
081 - The origins of FDS with Kevin McGrattan
December 21, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBHas it ever crossed your mind how would our discipline look like, if we did not have Fire Dynamics Simulator? Maybe you had an opportunity to discuss CFD with colleagues from other disciplines, to find their faces in shock and awe that the fire community actually has its own, FREE AND OPEN SOURCE, validated and fully recognized solver? A testimony to the impact of FDS may be the citation count on its user guide, which has recently exceeded 5.000 citations! The FDS code is something special a...
080 - Adaptive Fire Testing: A new foundation stone for fire safety (ERC StG Grant) with Ruben van Coile
December 14, 2022 06:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBToday is a great day to celebrate with Prof Ruben van Coile of Ghent University, who is most likely the first representative of Fire Safety Engineering to receive a grant within the European Research Councill Starting Grant scheme. It is not common to celebrate a grant award this much - usually, we would wait till the work gets done and we see the effects... But not here. ERC is something else. ERC is a place for the bravest proposals brought by the brightest minds of science. And even tha...
079 - Timber columns failure in the decay phase with Thomas Gernay and Jochen Zehfuss
December 07, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBWhen the flaming combustion stops and the raging inferno disappears, the environment is still far away from a stable, stationary state. The heat emitted by the fire and accumulated by the structural elements is still on the move, travelling through the members until it gets eventually dissipated. As parts of the structure get heated, some processes will occur, that may influence their load-bearing capacity and other properties. This is nothing new, we recognize this as an obvious process wit...
QA#1 - November 2022
December 05, 2022 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBWelcome to Questions & Answers session 01 covering the topics brought up in November 2022. In this session you can find answers to the following questions: Fire resistance of joints asked by Millie Wan (answered by Piotr Turkowski) - jump to 1:41 Fire detection in car parks asked by Elena Funk - jump to 11:10 Balancing safety and architectural beauty asked by Ekonudim Friday - jump to 15:51 Comment on driving fire safety in Iran by Neda Farhoudi - jump to 21:34 Smoke control strategie...
078 - Experiments that Changed Fire Science pt. 2 - BRE Cardington with Tom Lennon
November 30, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBIf Dalmarnock was the reality check for fire modelling, we could call the work carried by BRE at Cardington the birthplace of Structural Fire Engineering. Welcome to episode 2 of Experiments that Changed Fire Science! In this episode dr Tom Lennon from BRE takes us to a journey through the massive experimental programmes carried at BRE Cardington facility. A former aircraft hangar turned into a testing ground for ENTIRE BUILDINGS. That is what was the most unique for the programme - instea...
077 - Informal settlements - we need solutions not gadgets, Richard Walls
November 23, 2022 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBDelivery of fire safety to one billion inhabitants of informal settlements cannot be done through a single solution. No magical extinguishing ball nor hyper-sensitive sensor can solve this issue. As it is not a single issue - it is dozens of overlapping problems spanning from the availability of materials, how structures are built and how the urban landscape can be planned and managed. It is related to how society is managed, what role models are presented to them and what resources they hav...
076 - Experiments that changed fire science pt. 1 - Dalmarnock Fire Tests Round Robin study with Guillermo Rein and Wolfram Jahn
November 16, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBWelcome to a mini-series of episodes on experiments that changed fire science. In the first episode, we cover the a prioiri and posteriori modelling task within the Dalmarnock Fire Experiments programme carried out by the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. The whole experimental programme was led by prof. Jose Torrero. In this episode, we focus on two modelling tasks within the programme, that lead to a major shift in how modern modelling tools are used in...
075 - Spacecraft fire safety with David Urban
November 09, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBDear Terrestial Fire Engineers, let me take you on a journey that will make you experience fire engineering like nothing on our planet. Because in fact, it is the fire engineering of spacecraft for their operations in a zero-gravity environment. The environment in which the most fundamental aspects of fire engineering (think about smoke cannot go up when there is no up!) are being challenged. Where fire physics is completely different, and where things that are necessary for humans (oxygen, ...
074 - Engineering not magic, intumescent coatings with Andrea Lucherini
November 02, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBIntumescent coatings are not magic. They are a product of amazing engineering, a theatre of thermophysical properties that create an insulative layer that sometimes is the only thing holding fire from destroying a structure. A chemical masterpiece in which the onset of swelling is chosen so that the paint layer is soft just when the chemical compound used to foam starts releasing gasses. Sharing many features with natural carbon-made materials, they char and oxidize. And once you start model...
073 - Smoke control in shopping malls - uncommon aspects that make or break the system
October 26, 2022 03:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBLong before I started the podcast, my bread and butter was to find clever ways to remove smoke from shopping malls. Actually, I like to believe I was pretty good at the job, given the fact some of the biggest projects in Eastern Europe successfully made their way through our office. At some point (after reading Roger Harrisons PhD thesis) I figured out there is some science in the stuff we are doing in our engineering, and that day I turned into a scientist. This idea turned into passion, an...
073 - Extracting the secret of IMFSE from Bart Merci and Eulalia Planas
October 19, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBMany creators will not agree, but in some cases, copying is the highest form of admiration. And there are things in Fire Safety Engineering that are more than worthy of being copied. One of them is the famous International Masters in Fire Safety Engineering course, carried together by the Universities of Ghent, Edinburgh, Lund and a new member - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. And from what I've just learned from one of the masterminds - Prof. Bart Merci and Prof. Eulalia Planas- they ...
072 - Extracting the secret of IMFSE from Bart Merci and Eulalia Planas
October 19, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBMany creators will not agree, but in some cases, copying is the highest form of admiration. And there are things in Fire Safety Engineering that are more than worthy of being copied. One of them is the famous International Masters in Fire Safety Engineering course, carried together by the Universities of Ghent, Edinburgh, Lund and a new member - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. And from what I've just learned from one of the masterminds - Prof. Bart Merci and Prof. Eulalia Planas- they ...
071 - Risk as a tool for thinking with Ruben van Coile
October 12, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBWhen thinking about 'risk' do you view it as a tool? I usually thought about it as a concept or maybe as a measure of 'how safe my building is?', but I have not really appreciated how beneficial it might be when used in such a way. Once you take it in its basic form - presentation of probabilities and consequences of fires in your buildings, you may use it to find answers to questions, that are a struggle to answer in another way. You can understand the performance of your building, its shor...
070 - Fire resistance is whatever you want it to be with Piotr Turkowski
October 05, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBToday we talk fire resistance, but unlike you have ever heard. Join me and Dr Piotr Turkowski - two fire laboratory professionals in an honest discussion about their craft. The challenges in standardization and committee work, discoveries in laboratories that are very tough to implement in the test method design, and sometimes unscientific approaches which are necessary for a market consensus. All the challenges that make us view fire resistance in a different way than you may have. Here a...
069 - Challenging fires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) with Michael Gollner
September 28, 2022 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBWhy so many researchers are spending their time tackling fire issues at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)? What is so challenging about this? We always lived near nature, why today this emerges as one of the 'hottest' topics of fire science? As my today's guest Prof. Michael Gollner says - you need a very bad combination of weather and vegetation conditions to create a really bad fire. However, these conditions are occurring more and more often - in California they are not even considering ...
068 - Human walking speed and factors that influence it with John Gales
September 21, 2022 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBWhat factors influence the walking speed of an occupant? Is it just their physiology and crowd density? It seems it is more complicated than that (as most things are in fire science...). Dr John Gales of York University takes me on a journey through their extremally interesting research on anthropomorphic data and movement speeds, which they have been extensively carrying through the last years. You will learn why the crowd at a football match will have a different characteristic than one at...
067 - Next-gen smoke control experimental facility and a digital twin with Grzegorz Krajewski
September 14, 2022 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBWe've felt a bit awkward about how FSE handles smoke control in corridors. If you look closely into common practices, they rarely do include impressive engineering - more often you see some 'tips and tricks' that make the CFD simulations work out and systems are accepted. Doors opening/closing in specific timeline points, heat source sizes or soot generation parameters... I agree it does not necessarily mean that all the systems are designed wrongfully, or they do not provide safety... but i...
066 - Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings with Andy Buchanan
September 07, 2022 03:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBI wonder if we will be ever able to say: we know exactly how to build fire-safe buildings with mass timber. However that day may never come, each day of research brings us a little bit closer to achieving this goal. And some days - like the one in which Andy Buchanan and Birgit Östman published their open access handbook on fire-safe use timber, we definitely leap towards success! In today's episode, I'm interviewing prof. Andy Buchanan on his thoughts on fire-safe use of timber, in rela...
065 - Understanding mesh sensitivity and model uncertainties with Jason Floyd
August 31, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBWill a higher resolution mesh make my CFD more accurate? That is a harmless question, and most of us would tend toward 'I guess yeah'. But let us try and unpack this. Into atoms! What does higher resolution mean? How exactly solver deals with increased spatial discretization and what are the exact consequences of that? What is a high resolution for a tiny orifice and what is a high resolution for a road tunnel? But it gets better... What makes CFD more accurate? Is it better alignment with e...
064 - Heat stress in fires - from inside and outside with Denise Smith and Gavin Horn
August 24, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThis amount of heat flux for this amount of time, routine conditions, check, done. This is how I used to do my engineering and tenability assessment related to heat stress... up till today when prof Denisse Smith and prof Gavin Horn took me on a bumpy journey into the physiology of humans in fire conditions and in personal protective equipment (PPE). It is astonishing, that the stress on the body of the firefighter may be as great from the fire as from their own heat generation due to work b...
063 - Why do we need a handbook of fire and the environment with Brian Meacham and Margaret McNamee
August 17, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBDo we need another fire handbook? If so, what handbook would that be? I guess a question like this must have gone through Brian Meachams' mind when he got the idea for a handbook of fire and environment. And he got a brilliant co-editor - Margaret McNamee to support him in this tough work. The effect - a complete piece on the environmental effects of fires - but beyond just smoke and contamination. A piece that deals with the complexities of the modern world, sustainability and resilience. O...
062 - BIM (not only for fire) with Peter Thompson and Rino Lovreglio
August 10, 2022 03:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBIt does not matter if you hate or love BIM, does not matter if you use it daily or have no idea what it is... Building Information Modelling will be an important part of our engineering future and we better get used to it. In this episode, I talk to Peter Thompson of GHD, who had previously worked at Autodesk as a Revit developer, and prof. Ruggiero Lovreglio, a teacher of computer methods in design at Massey University. Having two experts - one a developer, and the other a user of BIM I tr...
061 - Glazing in fire with Yu Wang
August 02, 2022 22:00 - 47 minutes - 33 MBThe relation between ventilation conditions and fire severity is quite a fundamental one. You don't even have to be a fire safety engineer to realize that more air means a bigger fire. But how does air get into the compartment fire in the first place? Through broken windows of course! And here we come to the subject of today's episode. Because with all the considerable improvements in glazing technologies for building facades, is it really okay to assume that the glazing has failed and all...
060 - How PV panels change the fire behaviour of roofs with Jens Kristensen
July 27, 2022 03:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB[March 2023 update] The Thesis PDF is finally available! Check it here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369141515_Fire_risk_associated_with_photovoltaic_installations_on_flat_roof_constructions_-_Experimental_analysis_of_fire_spread_in_semi-enclosures If a PV panel is fire safe, and the roof is fire safe, what is the outcome of a panel placed on the roof? Not a great surprise that merging two things that meet their requirements within their respectable eco-systems gives a not such...
059 - Residential fire safety with Dan Madrzykowski and Charlie Fleischmann
July 20, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBHow much the fire scene at households has changed over the last 30 years? Why modern furniture burns worse than one made with wood, cotton and other natural materials? And what does that mean to firefighting? What challenges do modern firefighters face fighting residential fires... There is so many questions to be asked about residential fires, and in this episode, I answer a lot of them with the firefighting research legends - Dan Madrzykowski of the UL Fire Safety Research Institute and pr...
058 - Animal pyrocognition - a path to undestand our beginnings with fire with Ivo Jacobs
July 13, 2022 03:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBHave you wondered how fire science started? But I mean the real real start... not 1666 one, nor the one when we've started to build furnaces... The start when the first evolutionary ancestor of homo sapiens figured out this warm bright thing could be used to process food. The start when this bright thing was protected and used intentionally. The bright thing that was so important for our kind, that the proof for this relationship can be found literally in our anatomy... The best way to stu...