Cable and Electrical Fires

Dear Colleagues,

Cables, as the "arteries" and "nerves" of the national economy, are widely used in energy transmission, information transmission and various motor instruments. However, with the increasing demand for electricity and the inevitable aging, cable and electrical fires have become the main cause of fire accidents and even lead to secondary disasters, such as gas/dust explosions in mines, or nuclear leakage in nuclear power plants. Despite a lot of research on the characteristics (HRR, FPI, etc.) of cable fire have been carried out for cable fire risk assessment, there are still many problems that have not been solved, including high-precision models for predicting the occurrence, development and extinguish of cable fire, the method for detecting or preventing cable fire, etc.

This Special Issue aims to attract the latest progress around the cable fire, including the methods or model for predicting the cable ignition, the flame spread behaviors and its extinguish, the technologies or strategies for detecting the cable fires in confined spaces, or for cable fire prevention, and so on.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Mechanisms of the ignition, propagation and the distinction of cable fire;
• Models for flame spread over cable;
• Risk assessment on cable fires;
• New techniques or strategies for cable fire detection/prevention;
• Scale correlation of cable fire;
• Numerical simulation of cable fire.

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Prof. Dr. Ying Zhang
Dr. Xiaoyu Ju
Dr. Xianjia Huang
Dr. Fuchao Tian
Guest Editors

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