NSERC – YorkU Fire Research Team

2018 -19 NSERC and OGS Scholarship winners announced! And other news…

April 7, 2018October 31, 2018 by yorkufire

As we are about to begin the summer term at York University, we have a number of news items and scholarship announcements to share. We have had significant investment in our student's research this week with over 50K in scholarships awarded to team members. Our undergraduate research team won four NSERC USRA awards (10 now…

Engineered Timber and Fire

January 7, 2017April 7, 2018 by yorkufire

We have two papers being presented by students at this year's Fire and Materials Conference in San Francisco: Comparing timber adhesive shear strength properties after fire damage Laminated veneer lumber plated connections in fire Engineered timber is built up using adhesives. These adhesives tend to begin to break down at temperatures around 200C. The first paper…