Advances in Explosion, Fire and Related Cascading Effects: Modeling, Assessment and Prevention
A Special Issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255) belonging to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 378
Editors
Interests: numerical modeling of explosion and fire incident; explosion and fire response of structures; cascading multi-hazard modeling and protection; safety engineering and risk control
Interests: process safety; process system engineering; quantitative risk assessment; domino effect; Natech; inherent safety
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Interests: dust explosion fundamentals; industrial explosion hazards; dust layer fires; explosion mitigation and prevention; design of safety functional materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industrialization and urbanization have brought unprecedented benefits to modern society while simultaneously increasing the inherent risks of technological accidents. Explosions and fires represent two of the most severe and disruptive events across a wide range of critical infrastructure sectors, including chemical and process industries, energy storage and transportation, and the built environment. While direct effects may cause severe damage, their most catastrophic consequences often arise from cascading effects, where the initial event triggers a chain of secondary failures, escalating the magnitude of the disaster. Examples include domino effects in industrial parks, structural collapse following intense explosion and fire, and systemic failure of interconnected infrastructure.
Despite significant progress in safety science, the increasing complexity of modern systems, the advent of new materials and energy technologies, and the intensifying pressure of climate change necessitate a continued and focused advancement in the fundamental understanding and technical capabilities to prevent, mitigate, and respond to fires and explosions. This Special Issue, titled "Advances in Explosion, Fire and Related Cascading Effects: Modeling, Assessment and Prevention", aims to capture the latest frontier research dedicated to enhancing the resilience of socio-technical systems against these extreme events.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Advanced methodologies for explosion and fire modeling;
- Damage mechanism and protection of critical infrastructures under explosion or fire load;
- Analysis and prevention of cascading multi-hazard and domino effects;
- Artificial intelligence applications in explosion and fire incident analysis;
- Mitigation and prevention of industrial explosion and fire;
- Computational modeling of fire and explosion phenomena;
- Advances in hydrogen and battery safety;
- Advanced Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS) models;
- Analysis and Prevention of failure dependence in complex systems;
- Resilience assessment and enhancement in cascading extreme events.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xiaofeng Li
Prof. Dr. Valerio Cozzani
Dr. Yajie Bu
Dr. Yixin Zhao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- explosion and fire
- domino effects
- cascading events
- multi-hazard
- modelling and simulation
- loss prevention
- risk management
- resilience assessment
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