Fire Spread Along Roofs-some Experimental Studies

Melt-Flow Behaviours of Thermoplastic Materials under Fire Conditions: Recent Experimental Studies and Some Theoretical Approaches

Polymeric materials often exhibit complex combustion behaviours encompassing several stages and involving solid phase, gas phase and interphase. A wide range of qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative testing techniques are currently available, both at the laboratory scale and for commercial purposes, for evaluating the decomposition and combustion behaviours of polymeric materials. The...

Efficient Roof Shapes through Wind Flow and Indoor Temperature, Case Studies: Flat Roofs and Domed Roofs

Some experimental studies of familiarity and liking

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Experimental studies on the spread of cancer in the lymphatic system. IV. Retrograde spread.

This report is one in a series dealing with experiments designed to study the mechanics of the spread of cancer through the lymphatic system. In these experiments, viable transplantable tumor cells are injected directly into afferent lymphatics. Past work concerned the forward spread of cancer, from node to node and through the thoracic duct (~-4). Studies of lymphatic spread would be incomplet...

A convection model for fire spread simulation

We present a convection model which can be coupled with fire propagation models in order to take into account the wind and the slope which are two of the most relevant factors affecting surface fire spread. An asymptotic analysis gives a three dimensional convective model governed by a two–dimensional equation.