2026 July - 48 articles
Thermal runaway in electric vehicle power battery packs is a key risk in fire prevention and control for electric transportation. Its triggering, propagation, and failure modes are jointly affected by external thermal abuse, material insulation perfo...
The issue of thermal runaway in power batteries of new-energy vehicles occurs frequently, posing a serious threat to life and property safety. This study aims to develop a high-performance fire-proof coating to address this problem. Specifically, the...
Wildfires are an increasing threat in Central Europe and pose challenges for protective forests and areas at the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Understanding, describing and predicting fire behaviour is therefore becoming more relevant for fir...
Accurate wildfire prediction increasingly determines whether emergency resources arrive before a disaster becomes uncontrollable, yet the dominant paradigm reduces the problem to binary occurrence, offering no estimate of the severity that drives sup...
Burned-area totals are useful for national monitoring, but they do not reveal how, when or under what social and ecological conditions a landscape burns. We developed an event-based fire-regime and stewardship framework for Eswatini, a topographicall...
For gas leakage monitoring in obstacle environments such as oil and gas stations, the layout of fixed sensors directly affects the validity of monitoring data and the accuracy of subsequent leakage source localization. To achieve effective coverage o...
Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is a key determinant of fuel flammability and forest fire danger; however, its operational monitoring remains challenging due to the limited spatial and temporal coverage of field measurements. This study aims to ass...
Firefighters often perform multiple consecutive bouts of high-intensity work in hot environments, which can lead to physiological fatigue and increased health risks. This study examined changes in core temperature, skin temperature, and heart rate du...
The Republic of Korea experiences over 500 forest fires annually, consuming more than 4000 ha. Helicopters are the primary resource for initial attack, but effectively dispatching these limited resources during multiple simultaneous fires poses a sig...
Monnex has become the most efficient dry powder extinguishing agent due to its unique fire extinguishing mechanism—the “burning fragmentation” phenomenon. To study the fire extinguishing mechanism of Monnex in detail and elucidate t...
Accurate detection in the early stages of a fire is a crucial prerequisite for the efficient implementation of fire suppression and emergency rescue operations. Its accuracy and timeliness directly affect the control of disaster loss severity. Tradit...
Surface fire frequently occurs beneath the canopy of North American forests under moderate wind speed and moisture-deficit conditions. Surface rate of spread (sROS) models can provide guidance for suppression operations and can be incorporated into f...
This study investigated how fatigue induced in firefighter boots (FBs) versus sport shoes (SSs) affects ankle joint position sense (JPS), range of motion (ROM), and subjective responses. Twelve healthy males participated in a mixed-design study, perf...
Safety concerns regarding hydrogen dispersion, fire, and explosion hinder the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs). This study developed and validated a numerical model for hydrogen leakage, dispersion, and explosion in representa...
This work examines the performance, combustion, and emission characteristics of a diesel engine coated with a ceramic thermal barrier coating and fueled with emulsified Jatropha biodiesel blended with water and butanol. A low heat rejection (LHR) eng...
Riparian zones provide vital ecosystem services, including water purification, soil aeration, and recreation. Anthropogenic activities and invasive plant species threaten native vegetation and alter fire patterns. This study investigates the impact o...
Background: As global environmental issues and the energy crisis continue to intensify, diesel–natural gas dual-fuel engines have been extensively studied due to their stable combustion, low emissions, abundant natural gas reserves, and relativ...
This study examines whether a train fire near an evacuation interface in a railway tunnel can create an adverse configuration relevant to evacuation design and collective risk assessment. It focuses on twin single-track tunnels, in which the parallel...
Flame-retardant coatings and films are widely used to delay flame spread on interior finishing and wood-based materials; however, their fire effluent toxicity has not been sufficiently characterized, and direct comparisons between these product types...
Firefighting is a high-risk occupation involving intense physical exertion and hazardous environments. Occupational exposures, including combustion byproducts, contribute to long-term cancer risk and acute burn injuries. While line-of-duty fatalities...
Due to enclosed space, long evacuation distances, and complex path structures, key nodes in deep underground spaces are prone to forming bottlenecks during fire evacuation. To collect evacuation behavior data at potential bottlenecks, an interactive...
The spatial relationships between lightning-induced fire ignition and topography, vegetation, climate, and weather were analyzed in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, northeastern Greece. The study was based on reported lightning-induced igniti...
Forest fire susceptibility mapping is an important component of disaster risk reduction, particularly in transitional climatic zones such as Anhui Province, China. Traditional approaches often rely on expert weighting (AHP) or linear assumptions, whi...
Fires pose a serious threat to life and property, making early flame detection critical for reducing fire losses. However, existing single-band flame detection methods cannot fully exploit complementary spectral information and are prone to false ala...
Wildfires threaten natural ecosystems and human livelihoods in the Tanzanian Miombo woodlands. This study presents the first locally calibrated, high-resolution wildfire susceptibility map for the Iringa region, developed using a robust machine learn...
In a Hele-Shaw cell, unconventional fragmented flame propagation occurs for Peclet numbers less than 15. Until now, the regimes arising were organized in a simple taxonomy. Here, we endeavor to classify our experiments in view of the Theory of Solito...
To address the major safety hazard that heat released from mining polyurethane (PU) reinforcement materials may induce spontaneous combustion of residual coal in goaf, this study selected No. 3 coal from Wangzhuang Coal Mine, Shanxi Lu’an, as t...
Indoor evacuation under emergency conditions remains a challenging problem due to dynamic hazards, uncertain infrastructure availability, and variability in human behavior. Traditional evacuation systems rely heavily on centralized architectures, mak...
To investigate the hydrogen leakage dispersion and explosion characteristics of fuel cell vehicles in an underground parking garage, experimental and numerical simulation studies were conducted. The results show that the hydrogen leakage concentratio...
This study presented a comprehensive optimization of a piezoelectric injector specifically designed for pure methanol compression-ignition engines. As a fuel for compression-ignition engines, methanol exhibits broad application prospects. To overcome...
Wind is a fundamental driver of wildfire behavior, yet wind–fire relationships remain poorly characterized in the mountainous regions of South Asia, where ground-based observations are scarce. This study examines the wildfire in the Suleiman Ra...
Extant research has documented elevated rates of alcohol use among the fire service. While some studies have sought to examine the role of drinking motives in firefighter alcohol use, findings are limited by a lack of exploration into the validity of...
Severe air leakage in the goaf of gob-side entry retaining panels can intensify oxygen supply to residual coal and consequently increase the probability of coal spontaneous combustion. Taking the 3451S working face of a coal mine in Hebei Province as...
Fire occurrence in Southwest China is jointly shaped by meteorological conditions, topography, vegetation status, and human activities. To improve the interpretability and validation rigor of regional fire susceptibility assessment, this study develo...
Wildfires in plateau and mountainous regions are increasingly destructive, often disrupting ground transportation networks and severely constraining emergency logistics, while unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remain limited by payload capacity. To add...
In Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) forest fire detection, flames and smoke exhibit dramatic scale variations. Existing methods often struggle with multi-scale feature extraction, fusion quality, and localization reliability, resulting in limited accura...
To systematically examine the effects of ambient wind speed on the fire behavior of inclined tunnel cables, this paper determines the combustion characteristics of ZR-RVV cable combustion parameters using synchronous thermal analysis and cone calorim...
Rapid electric-vehicle adoption is reshaping urban energy and mobility systems, especially in multi-unit dwellings (MUDs), where concentrated charging in shared parking areas simultaneously stresses distribution transformers and amplifies the consequ...
Firefighters experience elevated suicide risk; however, factors influencing this risk remain understudied among this frontline population. Distress overtolerance (DO), or enduring high emotional distress, may represent a novel risk factor in the fire...
Vision-based fire detection models are often limited by the insufficient diversity of annotated fire and smoke images, particularly in terms of fire location, flame scale, smoke density, ignition cause, and indoor scene context. This study investigat...
A novel material, chitosan oligosaccharide@melamine polyphosphate (CMP), with enhanced flame-retardant and hydrophobic properties, was synthesized by cross-linking melamine polyphosphate (MPP) with chitosan oligosaccharide. Compared with MPP, the CMP...
Spatial chromatic instability is currently one of the most robust methods for improving solutions proposed for image-based fire detection systems. Real flames exhibit erratic, turbulent local color variations, providing a more reliable discriminative...
Wood-processing industrial facilities in which Norway spruce wood (Picea abies) is processed and where products such as sawdust, wood chips or wood are generated are considered high-risk operations from the perspective of fire safety and explosion ha...
Growing interest in transporting hydrogen via natural gas pipelines highlights the need to understand flame characteristics during accidental leakage. However, limited literature is available on addressing the flame horizontal projection length of hy...
Ash-free net heat content (AF-NHC) represents the combustible heat content of plant biomass and is an important parameter in fire behavior and fire effects modeling. Despite its widespread use, little information exists regarding seasonal and regiona...
Wildfires are increasingly complex emergencies driven by climate variability, the expansion of wildland–urban interfaces, and the interaction between fire events and hazardous environments. These factors pose significant challenges for emergenc...
Accurate multi-channel gas concentration prediction is very important for coal mine safety. However, the dynamic reconstruction of the sensor network often interferes with the input sequence. Existing models face a critical trade-off: channel-indepen...
A quantitative analysis of larch-dominated Siberian forest regions was conducted to evaluate wildfire characteristics in relation to Fire Radiative Power (FRP), long-term meteorological dynamics, and FRP range ratios. The results were validated again...
