We had a very successful attendance at the Structures in Fire conference in Coimbra, Portugal. Mark Green and John Gales successfully bid for the next SIF conference to be held in Canada. The conference will be held at Dr. Gales' alma mater Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) with some events also planned in Toronto. We will…
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 fire lab funding was made official with a CFI-ORF grant this September. This funding advances equipment and technology for material study in fire and conducting data collection in HBIF studies with modern camera equipment. The grant will allow the fire testing lab at York University in Toronto, Canada to scale up fire testing technology.…
At York University, our fire research team studies heritage materials and their response to fire. Our focus has been to consider timber and masonry. Doing these studies we are in the midst of preparing revised international guidance for these important structures. More recently the events in Paris have emphasized why this is such a serious…
Dr. Gales will be chairing the Workshop on Advancements in Evaluating the Fire Resistance of Structures to be held Thursday December 6th and Friday December 7th, 2018. This workshop is sponsored by ASTM Committee E05 on Fire Standards and will be held at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, in conjunction with the December standards…
Members of our team attended the SFPE fire conference in Hawaii last week. Team member Hailey Quiquero gave a fantastic presentation on modelling timber structures in fire from a FEM point of view. Her work is a collaboration with the University of Canterbury. Dr. Gales gave a presentation regarding steel connections based on team alumni Matt…
Our Timber research was recently published in a conference paper presented at ASFE. The paper that describes our team's work before 2016 can be downloaded here. Since that above paper, and last year, our research team have undertaken four new and novel Timber based projects to expand knowledge in this research area as we relocate…
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…
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