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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Modeling fire-induced radiative heat transfer in smoke-filled structural cavities
A new methodology to address a key limitation of coupled fire-structure models was developed and validated. It is implemented in an open-source computational framework, overcoming traditional barriers to industrial uptake (Suresh Kumar, URS Corporation, leader FIRESTRUC project RFS-PR-02110). The development is part of a wider international collaboration to augment the OpenSees software framework (http://opensees.berkeley.edu/) for fire applications (DoI:10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000305), which facilitates extension of fire impacts to earthquake-damaged structures (DoI:10.1016/j.compstruc.2012.07.013). There is strong industrial interest in methodologies which facilitate the expansion of performance-based approaches for structural fire engineering, providing new freedoms in design (e.g. Jon Leach, AECOM Technology Corporation). (Industrial emails available).
