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Fire Risk of Polyethylene (PE)-Based Foam Blocks Used as Interior Building Materials and Fire Suppression through a Simple Surface Coating: Analysis of Vulnerability, Propagation, and Flame Retardancy

Fire, 2023
Building fires can spread through surface combustion of both combustible and interior finishing materials. Recently, the use of foam blocks as interior materials for high-rise residential buildings has increased.
Yongtae Jeon, Jungwoo Park, Jongyoung Park, Chankyu Kang   +3 more
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Regional High-Rise Building Fire Risk Assessment Based on the Spatial Markov Chain Model and an Indicator System

Fire
High-rise buildings (HRBs) are prone to high fire hazards due to their high occupant density, limited evacuation routes, and high fire load. The indicator system method, as a systematic evaluation method, is widely applied to assess HRB fire risk ...
Yan Zhang, Guru Wang, Xuehui Wang, Xin Kong, Hongchen Jia, Jinlong Zhao   +5 more
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Tunnels with rough walls and cavities

Ingeniería Investigación y Desarrollo, 2014
Often the finishing surfaces of road tunnels (both gables and vaults) present not only important uniform roughness, but even holes that can be numerous and with significant size: usually in uncoated tunnel is where most uniform and major irregularities ...
Gabriele Vigne, Jimmy Jönsson, Fernando Hacar   +2 more
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Fire incidents, trends, and risk mitigation framework of electrical vehicle cars in Australia [PDF]

, 2023
Electric Vehicles (EVs) offer a promising solution to reduce the environmental impact compared to internal combustion engine vehicles. However, EV adoption in Australia has been hindered by concerns over fire safety.
Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Md Delwar Hossain, Douglas, Grahame (R14881), Md Kamrul Hassan, Hossain, Md. Delwar (R21122), Hasnat, Md. Rayhan (S37560), Hameed, Nazra, Rahnamayiezekavat, Payam R. (R19191), Sameera Pathirana, Swapan Saha, Pathirana, Sameera W. (R19421), Md Rayhan Hasnat, Nazra Hameed, Saha, Swapan (R8517), Grahame Douglas, Hassan, Md. Kamrul (R18673)   +15 more
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Higher Snowfall Intensity is Associated with Reduced Impacts of Warming Upon Winter Snow Ablation

Geophysical Research Letters, 2020
Warming temperatures are altering winter snowpack accumulation and ablation. Physically based snowpack simulations have indicated that increasing precipitation intensity may buffer the impacts of warming on annual maximum snow water equivalents. Here, we
Adrienne M. Marshall, Timothy E. Link, Andrew P. Robinson, John T. Abatzoglou   +3 more
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The provision of fire services in rural areas [PDF]

, 2005
Fire services have been neglected in discussions of public service provision in rural areas. The way in which they are provided has a broader significance in terms of current debates about risk management.
Grant, Wyn
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Assessment and Mitigation of the Fire Vulnerability and Risk in the Historic City Centre of Aveiro, Portugal

Fire, 2022
Identifying fire risk in urban centres is instrumental for supporting informed decision-making and outlining efficient vulnerability mitigation strategies.
Dener Silva, Hugo Rodrigues, Tiago Miguel Ferreira   +2 more
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Challenges to disaster risk reduction: A study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa

Jàmbá, 2011
South Africa is a complex and dynamic society, with overwhelming and increasing problems with disaster risk in the vulnerable urban communities in and around its rapidly growing metropolitan centres.
Ann-Sofie Roth, Per Becker
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Investigation of Accidents during Storage Caused by Fermentation or Oxidation from SSSR and Fishmeal Using Thermal Analysis and Frank-Kamenetskii Theory

Recycling, 2018
In Japan, where soy sauce production and the fishery industries thrive, soy sauce squeezing residue (SSSR) and fishmeal, which are operational byproducts of these sectors, are produced as waste materials for recycling.
Naoharu Murasawa, Hiroshi Koseki, Yusaku Iwata, Takabumi Sakamoto   +3 more
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Fire and rescue service reconfiguration: a case study in Nottinghamshire [PDF]

, 2012
The Fire Cover Review in Nottinghamshire arises out of the Integrated Risk Management Planning process introduced in the UK by the Fire and Rescue 2004 Act,.
Murphy, P, Parkin, C, Greenhalgh, K
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