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…
The Denver Fire tests of 1890 were revolutionary to the practice of fire safety engineering. The tests were performed under direction of architectural firm, Andrews, Jaques and Rantoul. The objective was to compare three allegedly 'fire-proof' flooring arch systems which had been proposed for the Denver Equitable Building through a competitive bid process. For the building contract, the Pioneer fire proof construction company…
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 