INTRODUCTION Wood char depth patterns have been considered important by fire investigators in most countries where significant use is made of wood as a construction material. This is natural, since post-fire patterns found on wood members are generally more pronounced and extensive than those found on many other construction materials. But the present state of affairs has been such that there i...

Fire is a process that shaped and maintained most terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Changes in land use and patterns of human settlement have altered fire regimes and led to fire suppression resulting in numerous undesirable consequences spanning individual species and entire ecosystems. Many obvious and direct consequences of fire suppression have been well studied, but several, albeit less ob...

1. introduction extensive fires in the forests are examples of natural crises (hosseinali, 2005) and forest fire events are increasing in the conditions of changing climate and global warming; (azizi and yousefi, 2005). this phenomenon is considered one of the most destructive factors for forest ecosystems, causing irreparable damages (marozas et al, 2007). some of these damages include land us...

Despite the numerous values of riparian areas and the recognition of fire as a critical natural disturbance, few studies have investigated the behavior, properties, and influence of natural fire in riparian areas of the western USA. Riparian areas frequently differ from adjacent uplands in vegetative composition and structure, geomorphology, hydrology, microclimate, and fuel characteristics. Th...

fire behavior of different types of eps was evaluated with the use of iso 5660 cone calorimeter test method. considering the complexity of behavior of eps against high temperatures, several specimens were tested, so a betterjudgment on fire behavior of this material could be acquired. the effects of foam density, thickness of specimens and the level of heat flux on fire behavior of foam were ex...

Coverage of modern views on security trends and directions for developing systems in the context global automation integration into unified automated control systems. An overview prospects using artificial intelligence to identify difficult classify situations signs obtained from monitoring data. Assessment use fire alarm based principles neural networks (building combinatorics methods odd logi...