Departament de Física Aplicada
universitat politècnica de catalunya

Nonlinear Physics and Far from Equilibrium Systems

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Fire propagation and reaction of materials to fire

 

At the Fire Laboratory, placed at The School of Building Construction (EPSEB), we participate in the following research lines:

  • Fire and smoke propagation

 In collaboration with "Fire Brigades of Catalonia" we are working on the analysis of the propagation of fires in buildings. We reproduce real fires by computer simulation using the software Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (www.nist.gov). The comparison between numerical results and the in situ observations allows us to extract conclusions about the validity of the hypothesis made and the influence of different factors.

  • Reaction of materials to fire

We are collaborating in the development of materials and construction products with a better behavior to fire.

Collaborators:

  • Francesc Jordana and Laia Haurie (Dept. Construccions Arquitectòniques II, UPC)
  • Sebastià Massaguer (Fire Brigades, Generalitat de Catalunya).
  • Aldo H. Romero and Sinhué López-Moreno (Cinvestav-Queretano, México)
  • Jose Maria Chimenos and Ana Hernández (Universitat de Barcelona)



 
 
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