2026 June - 53 articles
Fire is the core safety threat to the survival and development of timber-framed buildings, and passive fire prevention intervention is the core foundation of fire protection systems for timber-framed buildings. Existing reviews suffer from limitation...
Background: Some widely used wildland fire behavior models, like the Fire Area Simulator (FARSITE), propagate fire fronts by computing the front-normal velocity (spread rate) as a function of local inputs and the front-normal direction. Such models a...
In recent years, the rapid expansion of low-temperature facilities—such as cold storage and indoor ice and snow venues—has underscored their pronounced vulnerability to fire, as evidenced by multiple severe incidents. Due to their distinc...
Disentangling the combined effects of heat and ash in natural forest fires is challenging, hindering understanding of soil microbial post-fire responses. A 90-day simulated fire experiment with 16S rRNA sequencing monitored bacterial communities and...
Mapping wildfire patterns in Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) areas is a fundamental tool for fire management and prevention, particularly in regions where urban expansion occurs in close proximity to natural vegetation. This mapping approach mak...
There is growing interest in the development of sustainable thermal insulating materials from renewable resources, a strategy which can stand as an alternative to conventional petroleum-based insulating materials. In this study, bio-based porous insu...
This study develops an integrated computational framework to assess the passage efficiency of a dam crest serving as a critical inter-regional corridor following a severe explosion event. The framework combines a physics-based damage model with an ag...
Understanding post-fire visible greenness change is important for assessing spatial heterogeneity in mountainous burned landscapes, but satellite observations often cannot capture local variation. This study developed a workflow using Unmanned Aerial...
This study, based on multi-source data fusion and risk index models, has developed a comprehensive methodological system for evaluating the risk of forest fires caused by human factors. The system starts with four dimensions, i.e., exposure, hazard f...
The Greater Khingan, a key cold-temperate coniferous forest region in northern China, is frequently affected by forest fires with severe ecological and economic impacts. The study investigates the influence of key environmental and anthropogenic driv...
Aircraft cargo compartment fires constitute a significant type of aviation fire, posing a grave threat to aviation safety. To guard against and respond to such fires, existing aircraft cargo compartments are equipped with smoke detection fire detecto...
Wildfires can threaten the safety of transmission towers by degrading galvanized coatings and reducing the load-bearing capacity of steel members exposed to elevated temperatures. This study investigates the thermal damage evolution and structural re...
Coal spontaneous combustion (CSC) remains a major hazard in coal mining. Research on CSC has largely focused on macromolecular structures, while the behavior of low-molecular-weight compounds remains unclear. Using B3LYP/6-311G density functional the...
To improve the efficiency of jet-based fire suppression for high-rise building façade fires, this study experimentally investigates the liquid film formation characteristics and fire suppression behavior of water jets impinging on insulated ve...
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is increasingly used in multi-story timber construction, but its combustible nature requires reliable fire protection, particularly in layered wall assemblies with concealed cavities. This study compares two medium-scale...
This study investigates the effects of Cobalt Oxide (Co3O4) nanoparticles on engine performance as well as emission characteristics under various engine load situations in test fuel (MB10). Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used to examine the e...
Military burn pits used during post-9/11 U.S. military deployments functioned as uncontrolled combustion systems and were widely utilized to dispose of large volumes of outdoor waste by burning. Burn pits involved heterogeneous waste materials burned...
Wildfires significantly affect wood properties and usability, yet their impact on hardwood species remains insufficiently understood. This study presents an exploratory characterization of moderately fire-affected pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) w...
Topographic ridges are widely used in wildfire interpretation, suppression planning, and potential control-line design, but the claim that final fire boundaries preferentially follow ridge crests is rarely tested against local terrain availability. R...
The risk of wildfires is increasing due to high temperatures and dry weather conditions caused by climate change. Outbreaks and spread of wildfires are usually conditioned by weather, topography, and fuel characteristics. In the Republic of Korea (he...
Phase change materials (PCMs) are increasingly incorporated into façades and wall systems to enhance passive thermal regulation; however, their fire safety remains poorly understood. While PCMs effectively reduce cooling loads, limited data ex...
Accurate prediction of electrical fire risk is important for early warning, but real-world monitoring data are often affected by sensor noise, transient anomalies, and non-Gaussian interference. This study proposes an HL-Transformer that incorporates...
Forest fires pose significant threats to ecological security, human settlements, and sustainable regional development, particularly in mountainous regions with complex environmental and anthropogenic conditions. Previous studies have yet to construct...
Lithium-ion batteries have become crucial energy carriers in multiple core fields owing to their excellent comprehensive performance. Nevertheless, as battery energy and power densities continue to rise and operating conditions grow increasingly comp...
Appropriate Halon-free fire suppression agents for aircraft cargo compartments are important in civil aviation safety. There are many products available and selecting an appropriate agent for civil aircraft cargo compartments under specific requireme...
Timely and efficient evacuation is crucial for tunnel fire safety. Previous studies often assumed fixed vehicle spacing and vehicle type ratios, which did not reflect real traffic conditions. Based on high-resolution satellite imagery of congested sc...
Double-skin façade (DSF) systems are important for energy efficiency because they effectively utilize natural ventilation and daylight. However, the uninterrupted vertical gaps in these systems may pose safety risks in the event of a fire by c...
Ammonia–hydrogen dual-fuel engines are regarded as a promising clean-energy power system, but nitrogen-based pollutants (NH3, NO, N2O, and NO2) emitted during their operation restrict their popularization and application. To clarify the influen...
Coal spontaneous combustion seriously threatens the safety of coal mine production, and studies on low molecular compounds in coal spontaneous combustion are limited. The chemical reaction process of low molecular compound valeric acid in coal sponta...
A new biomass pyrolyzer, named Biochar Oven, has been developed using flameless combustion technology, which provides uniform high temperature in the pyrolysis reactor. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of flameless combustion was developed...
Forest firefighters face concurrent thermal stress, biomechanical loading, high metabolic demand, smoke, and time-constrained manual work, conditions that increase musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk. In Chile, occupational health regulation requires...
In 2024, eight Soyuz launch vehicles launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome created 40 falling sites in Central and Northern Kazakhstan. During field work at all falling sites, the area of disturbances was assessed. The average area of zones containin...
The integration of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with deep learning in tunnel fire research is currently constrained by excessive reliance on manual operations and low overall efficiency. To address these limitations, this study presents a multi...
Accurate simulation modeling of the danger zone and real-time visualization of the toxic cloud spread during a fire and explosion at an industrial facility in a nearby urban area are in demand by rescue services conducting evacuation. Using a cellula...
Fire plays an important role in shaping forested ecosystems around the globe. Unlike many other fire-driven forest types, our understanding of pre-settlement fire behavior in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) systems is limited. To better understan...
Compared with gaseous hydrogen at ambient temperature, liquid hydrogen (LH2) possesses a higher volumetric energy density and is therefore regarded as one of the most economically viable hydrogen storage and transportation options. However, the extre...
Workplace accidents pose a serious threat to people’s lives and property and hinder social and economic development. Among these accidents, fire accidents are typical due to their sudden occurrence and severe consequences. To better understand...
This study examines how information source and fire manager attributes affect the use of 33 different information sources used for fire management. The approach is like that of recreation demand models that predict an individual’s travel to rec...
As key units in China’s new urbanization process, municipal districts exhibit distinct fire risk characteristics due to dense populations, concentrated infrastructure, and intensive socio-economic activities. Taking Xiaoshan District as an illu...
This study systematically investigates the influence of sound waves on the flame morphology of oil pan fires in commercial kitchen fire scenarios through a combined approach of numerical simulation and experimental research. A two-dimensional numeric...
To investigate the influence of fire-resistant overhanging eave geometry (width and installation height) on vertical fire spread along building facades, a nine-story building model was developed using PyroSim (version 2023.2.0816), and simulations we...
This research investigates the effect of seismic loading on FRRs of RC structures using different machine learning (ML) algorithms. First, 20 portal RC frames with varying span numbers and stories are designed for seismic loads. This is then expanded...
The development of robust and efficient computational methodologies is crucial for vision-based flame detection systems. While deep learning has shown promise, many existing models are direct applications of generic architectures, lacking principled...
This study integrates multi-source driving factors from 2005 to 2024, including meteorological elements, fire danger indices, vegetation, topography, and human activities, to comparatively analyze the performance of four machine learning models&mdash...
This study investigated the suppression effects and mechanisms of fine water mist on methane/air explosions through large-scale roadway experiments and numerical simulations. Experiments showed that fine water mist curtains deployed at 40 m and 70 m...
Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) integrates local governance and ecological stewardship, yet the social drivers shaping its effectiveness remain poorly understood. This study examines the relationships among leadership perception, community pa...
Conventional water mist systems require high-pressure pumps and complex piping networks to generate fine water droplets, which often results in high installation costs and maintenance difficulties. Recently, a water mist system with ultrasonic waves...
Fire is a key ecological driver in savanna systems, influencing soil biogeochemical processes by releasing nutrients but also causing potential losses through volatilization and leaching. In this study, we investigated how fire seasonality and soil d...
In a weakly constrained, confined space, four common ignition sources—electrical spark, open flame, tungsten filament, and electrochemical igniter—were employed to investigate how the ignition mode influences the overpressure and flame-pr...
Climate change has intensified global wildfire risks, yet national-scale prediction remains challenging due to the difficulty of consistently monitoring fuel conditions and human ignition factors. This study introduces calendar-based time proxy varia...
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