2026 August - 47 articles
Coal fires are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and ecological pollutants, yet their emission characteristics and carbon accounting remain poorly constrained. To reveal the pollutant generation characteristics and carbon emission leve...
Lithium-ion battery-powered (LIB-powered) electric bicycles (E-bicycles) are widely used in China, with many accidental fires occurring in parking facilities in high-rise buildings. E-bicycle parking areas in high-rise buildings have become fire-pron...
Early and reliable fire and smoke detection is essential for forest-fire warning and emergency response, especially in UAV-view and complex-background imagery, where small fire spots and diffuse smoke are easily affected by illumination variations an...
Methanol compression-ignition engines are vital for transport carbon neutrality, yet methanol’s low cetane number, corrosivity, low viscosity, and cavitation tendency compromised piezoelectric injector reliability. This study proposed systemati...
High-temperature smoke remains a primary threat in tunnel fire safety. The curved walls of small-radius Urban Traffic Link Tunnels (UTLTs) significantly alter smoke flow patterns and temperature distribution. Furthermore, no quantitative model exists...
Water-mist curtains act as thermal barriers to longitudinal smoke propagation in confined-space fires, but their downstream cooling remains difficult to predict with reduced-order models. This study develops a calibrated semi-analytical model that us...
Coal fires are disasters that occur when underground coal seams are subjected to combustion conditions induced by natural or human factors. This study investigates the eco-environmental quality of three typical coal fire areas, namely Surablak, Shuix...
The growing demand for renewable biomass energy has driven in-depth research into pyrolysis, in which particle size has emerged as a key factor influencing reaction kinetics and gas release. In this study, beech wood with four different sizes were pr...
Battery electric vehicle (BEV) fires in road tunnels can intensify thermal, smoke transport, visibility, and CO exposure hazards under confined ventilation. This study evaluated the combined mitigation performance of water mist and semi-transverse me...
Electric vehicle (EV) fires can rapidly affect smoke and thermal conditions in underground parking garages. In this study, fifteen PyroSim/FDS cases were screened, but quantitative analysis was restricted to four prescribed-extraction cases and one b...
With the rapid development of recycling and secondary utilization of end-of-life battery materials, it is crucial to clarify the impact of full-lifecycle degradation on the thermal safety limits of lithium-ion batteries. This study focuses on a 16 Ah...
Potassium silicate is used as an inorganic fire-retardant treatment for wood, but its effect on the short-term thermal response of different species under combined temperature–moisture conditions remains insufficiently described. This study inv...
This study addresses the critical need for accurate and efficient large-scale urban fire spread path prediction in dense urban areas by proposing a new gravitational framework-based theory. Its core innovation is the “characteristic attractive...
Climate change, altered ecosystems, and expanding development in fire-prone landscapes are increasing fire risk in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). This study uses Noosa, southeast Queensland, Australia, as a case study for a preliminary mod...
Wildfires are increasingly recognized as environmental disturbances associated with socio-economic transformations in agrarian systems. This study examines the associations between reported wildfire exposure, land-market outcomes, and agrarian inequa...
Identifying coal fire risk areas is essential for safe production in coal mines. Land Surface Temperature (LST) retrieval and high-temperature anomaly extraction are core techniques for coal fire risk detection. To address the insufficient evaluation...
Accurate short-term wildfire forecasting is essential for effective early warning, operational planning, and resource allocation. This study proposes the Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Fire Pressure Model (DST-FPM), a leakage-controlled forecasting framewor...
The increasing frequency and severity of wildfires pose growing challenges to ecological security in remote forest regions. In road-sparse primeval forests, wildfire prevention and ground emergency response are constrained not only by fire-prone envi...
Indoor positioning identifies location but does not directly indicate whether a route remains passable, how hazard exposure changes, or which alternative should be considered under deteriorating fire conditions. As a result, a geometrically shorter r...
Based on the decoupled n-dodecane skeletal mechanism and the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical framework, a multilayer feedforward neural network surrogate model was developed to predict ignition delay in a constant-volume combustion vesse...
Early aerial smoke detection is vital for wildfire response, but deploying accurate two-stage deep detectors on resource-limited Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) remains computationally prohibitive. Moreover, under uniform supervision, standard knowle...
To address the problems of small fire-spot scale, blurred boundaries, complex backgrounds, and insufficient feature representation of weak targets in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based early forest fire detection, a YOLOv8n-based forest fire detecti...
Longitudinal ventilation is a primary smoke-control strategy in road tunnels, yet its effect on structural thermal exposure remains insufficiently quantified under full-scale conditions. This study examined whether increased airflow mitigates lining...
Wind gusts are known to significantly influence wildfire behavior, yet their direct role in ignition dynamics remains underexplored in laboratory settings. This study investigates how controlled wind gusts affect ignition behavior, combustion transit...
Coal spontaneous combustion is a severe hazard in the goafs of shallow-buried coal seams, particularly under the condition of continuous surface air leakage. This study conducted an integrated experimental and 3D multi-field coupled numerical investi...
The aim of this study is to explore the fire resilience of traditional ancient villages in Huizhou, China, and to reveal “traditional environmental planning knowledge” as a spatial survival strategy for high-density settlements. This stud...
Concealed fires within the insulation layers of buildings, such as cold storage facilities and cinemas, present a serious fire hazard because heat generated by electrical faults can accumulate behind protective panels before ignition and then spread...
This study investigated microstructural, optical, and thermal changes in spruce wood (Picea abies) exposed to controlled laboratory heating to identify indicators associated with the transition from progressive thermal degradation to the initial char...
This study evaluates high-silica fiber/silica aerogel composites (HSFACs) for the passive fire protection of bridge cables. The primary objective is to reveal the high-temperature degradation mechanism of HSFAC and quantitatively determine a reliable...
AI-based decision support is moving into fire practice and governance, where it is used to prioritise inspections, analyse building and community risk, examine station coverage, support evacuation planning, interpret warnings, and explore fire scenar...
High-rise building fires pose substantial challenges to conventional firefighting operations due to restricted rescue space and the difficulty of delivering suppression resources rapidly. To improve response efficiency, this study proposes a two-stag...
Accurate quantification of wildfire risk is essential for balancing wildfire mitigation and prescribed fire management in grassland ecosystems, yet existing fire danger indices do not explicitly distinguish seasonal fuel dynamics from daily weather v...
Traditional fire detection technologies for buildings are no longer adequate for the fire prevention and control needs of complex structures, while emerging artificial intelligence technologies have become the core path to break through the bottlenec...
To address the discrepancy between the constant-power fire sources currently used in cable fire-related research and cable fire protection product testing and actual cable fires, this paper proposes a cable equivalent combustion simulation method bas...
Coupled fire–atmosphere models (CFAMs) are increasingly proposed as an important tool for investigating a range of scientific and management questions, including the design of fuel management strategies. Uncertainty in CFAM outputs arises from...
Professional wildland firefighters are exposed to substantial physical, thermal, respiratory, and psychosocial demands. This cross-sectional study examined whether cardiometabolic and work-related health indicators differed among the five provinces o...
Early detection of incipient fire signs, such as dilute smoke emerging at valve hall penetration seals, remains a critical challenge for fire safety in ultra-high-voltage (UHV) converter stations. This study addresses the limitation through controlle...
This study investigates the reaction of charred wood cladding systems to fire, focusing on the influence of wood species, charred surface treatment, flame retardant treatment, surface coating and board orientation. Nine different configurations of la...
Introduction: Approximately 50% of firefighter injuries occur in the musculoskeletal system and poor movement quality increases injury risk. Previous research suggests that corrective exercise interventions with integrated movements improve movement...
In mountainous wildfire response, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) emergency services depend on rapidly deployable and spatially reliable vertiports. However, existing site-selection methods insufficiently support continuous UAV operations in topographi...
Underground deep vertical spaces are a new form of architectural structure for the efficient use of land resources. However, their slender geometry can intensify smoke transport and thermal hazards during fires. Sealing is a potential emergency strat...
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), utilising chemistries based on Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) containing lithium-ion devices, often present fire safety hazards that existing qualitative risk frameworks, including NFPA 855’s 5 × 5 co...
Explosive detonation is a high-speed and high-energy chemical-physical transformation process that rapidly generates high-temperature and high-pressure gases as well as shock waves. These energies are released intensely in a short time, exhibiting ex...
Forest fires are a recurring disturbance in Mediterranean ecosystems, but they also impact air quality and public health, particularly given recent trends towards increasingly widespread and extreme fires. This study analyzed six large fires that occ...
As rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems are increasingly deployed on taller buildings and across a wider range of building applications, localized overheating or initial fires caused by electrical faults, combustible roof-covering materials, or maintena...
This experiment investigated changes in the key parameters of explosion pressure peak (Pmax) and pressure rising rate peak ((dP/dt)max) and flame propagation characteristics of wood dust explosion (pine, cypress and poplar dusts) under different wood...
Accurate localization of concealed fire sources is the fundamental prerequisite for effective coal fire control and mitigation. The self-potential method, as a passive, cost-effective geophysical technique for large-area surveys, exhibits unique adva...
