Dr. Gales presented last week in Kingston, Ontario on the topic of "Stadium Pedestrian Movement in Emergencies such as Fire" at the Queen's University's Robert and Joyce Jones Civil Engineering Forum. The presentation was largely an adaptation of what was presented at the SFS seminar series earlier in the year for Engineers Australia (see https://portal.engineersaustralia.org.au/event/2022/06/stadium-design-and-pedestrian-movement-43521)…
Our YorkUfire team (Katie, Tim and Ethan) visited London UK to meet with our collaborators and friends last October. The research visit was formerly an annual event for our graduate and undergraduate team members before Covid since 2015 where they were given a chance to share their research with collaborators, and we are quite happy…
Its been awhile since we have updated the community on our progress at York University. You can follow our research activities. So this post serves as this update following a seperate posting in the IAFSS newsletter Recent Research Projects When lab restrictions came into place back in March 2020, a number of data collection initiatives…
Our research team traveled to Naples Italy to attend the IfireSS conference. Ben Nicoletta presented his paper to a keen audience. The paper, Performance of Gfrp stay-in- place Form work for Bridge Dec ks after Real and Simulated Fire Damage (download here) was an interesting work with collaboration from University of Waterloo and Queen's University. It is a…
Very exciting to announce that effective this year I am joining John Wiley's journal, Fire and Materials as an Associate Editor. In this role I will be considering mainly the structural materials papers. Fire and Materials is one of the more older peer reviewed journals for our research community beginning in 1976. The journal is…
We have an exciting two weeks ahead. The research team will be visiting 4 conferences in the coming weeks to present 6 presentations. In addition we will have a 7th presented at ASFE and this will be announced at a later date. The below are brief descriptions of each. Open access versions will appear at a…
The British Pathé has recently uploaded their film archive to Youtube. Among these films are about 200 or so short videos about building fires, fire fighting measures and even fire research. The films were recorded between 1896 and 1973. The digitization was performed in 2002 using finances from a National Lottery grant (see the telegraph article for more details here on…
YorkU Fire Research Team 