Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) is the application of science and engineering principles to protect people and their environments from the destructive effects of fire and smoke and it will become more important in the future. The Workshop strives to bring together leading experts in fire engineering throughout the world to share the latest advances in our field while learning through our past experiences. Participants can expect to receive a deeper insight into the FSE with the practical tips for the application of FSE. Your support will make this event an overwhelming success.
Details of the Workshop:
Date / Time : 17.3.2010 / 0900 - 1230
Venue : Chiang Chen Studio Theatre, The HK Polytechnic University
Contact : Mr. WONG Sze-lut, Sunny
Email : knightfire@ymail.com
Fee : HK$ 200.00
Special Offer : HK$ 100.00 for the first 50 students applied for the workshop
Application : Fill in the attached form and send it to:
The Institution of Fire Engineers, Hong Kong Branch
7/F, Fire Services Headquarters Building
1 Hong Chong Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East
Kowloon
(Attn: Mr. WONG Sze-lut, Sunny c/o Fire Safety Workshop 2010)
Speaker
Professor Ian Burgess
Ian Burgess gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge, and his doctorate at University College London.
In the mid-1980s he began a very fruitful and enduring collaboration with Roger Plank in developing numerical techniques for modelling of the behaviour of steel and composite elements in fire. A finite element approach developed progressively from 1990 as the emphasis gradually shifted from members in isolation towards the performance of whole steel and composite framed building structures and sub-frames. The current Vulcan software is capable of non-linear modelling of 3-dimensional composite buildings as temperature distributions develop through the cross-sections of both beam-columns and slabs. The series of full-scale fire tests on the multi-storey building at Cardington were a vital ingredient in the development of the software, and in understanding the complex interactions which take place in fire. Vulcan is still being developed by the research group, but a designersˇ¦ version with an interactive graphical interface is now marketed through a University spin-out company Vulcan Solutions Ltd. This is now being used in performance-based design of fire protection strategies by leading UK consultants, and was the winner of two British Computer Society national awards in 2005. The main thrust of the research remains in numerical modelling, but some very successful experimental work has been done at Sheffield in developing a component approach to connection modelling for fire conditions. The most important current theme of the research group, after the tragic events of 11 September 2001, concerns the robustness of connections in fire and the avoidance of progressive collapse of buildings in fire. The research has been funded mainly by the EPSRC, but has also attracted funding both from industry and other government agencies. So far the research programme on fire has involved over 40 research workers and has generated more than 200 publications. Two companion papers, published in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, were awarded the Raymond C Reese Prize in 2005.
Professor D D DRYSDALE
Professor Drysdale joined the Edinburgh University Fire Engineering Department in 1974 and helped develop the first postgraduate degree programme in Fire Engineering. He is the author of the standard reference text in the field, ˇ§An Introduction to Fire Dynamics.ˇ¨ (2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1998) and was a member of the Editorial Board for the Fourth Edition of the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering (published in 2009). He was Chairman of the International Association of Fire Safety Science from 2002 ˇV 2005, and edited the leading scientific journal in the field, Fire Safety Journal from 1989 - 2009. His wide range of research interests include the ignition and fire growth characteristics of combustible materials, smoke production in fires, compartment fire dynamics, fire suppression and extinction and the response of steel framed structures to fire exposure. He has been involved in a number of major Public Inquiries, the Kingˇ¦s Cross Underground Station fire (1987), the Piper Alpha Disaster (1988), the Garley Building fire (Hong Kong, 1996) and the Ladbroke Grove Rail Accident (1999). More recently, he has been a member of the Major Incident Investigation Board which was set up following the explosions and fires at the Buncefield Oil Storage and Transfer Depot (11th December 2005). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institution of Fire Engineers and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. His numerous awards include: ˇ§Man of the Yearˇ¨ (1983), the Arthur B. Guise Medal (1995) and the D Peter Lund Award (2009) by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the Kawagoe Medal of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (2002), the Rasbash Medal of the Institution of Fire Engineers (2004) and the Sjolin Award of FORUM, the association of International Directors of Fire Research (2005).
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