Imagine you live in a timber shack in Alaska. It's chilly up there, so you build yourself a huge log fire and pile on all thewoodyou can find. To start with, the fire seems a great idea—especially since it's so cold outside. The shack warms up slowly, but predictably, and it'...
Especially in medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), it is difficult to perform risk assessments for hazardous chemicals. This paper proposes a simple hazard scenario identification method focusing on the three elements of combustion (fire triangle), that is fuels, ignition source, and oxygen....
Fire-burned rateFire-spread simulationAfter the occurrences of large-scale earthquakes, secondary damage (e.g., fire following earthquake) can result in tremendous losses of life, properties, and buildings. To reduce these disaster risks, fire following earthquake assessment methods composed of ...