The research from Vinny Gupta and Jaime Cadena, PhD students at UQ Fire, on the characterisation of large open-floor plan compartment fires and uncertainty in the use of CFD tools to analyse fully-developed compartment fires has been recently highlighted by … Continue reading SFPE features UQ Fire article
The UQ Fire team wants to congratulate Daan Van den Broecke. Daan was presented with the 2016 David Sugden Award at the ITA World Tunnel Congress, held in Bergen, Norway this month. Daan completed the International Master of Science in Fire … Continue reading IMFSE-UQ alumni receives the 2016 David Sugden Award
UQ Fire delegations to present research outcomes at upcoming fire safety science and engineering conferences in June 2017. The 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) will be hosted by the Division of Fire Safety Engineering at Lund University, … Continue reading UQ Fire delegations at IAFSS and IFireSS
The last 9th of December students from the UQ Fire attended the ACMSM24 conference. In my case, that was the first time I was going to present my research to professors other than my supervisors and people in UQ Fire. … Continue reading 24th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials
Daan Van den Broecke obtained the David Sugden Award for his work investigating the Effectiveness of Sprinklers in Road Tunnels. Daan recently completed the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE), and developed his research project and thesis with the UQ Fire research group; the project was … Continue reading UQ Fire thesis wins the 2016 David Sugden Award
Last week I attended the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) in Vienna. My travel was supported by the FWPA (Forest and Wood Products Australia) travel award. Attending the 2016 WCTE meant great growth of my own understanding of the potential and challenges of modern … Continue reading WCTE 2016
Diana Casimiro-Soriguer, postgraduate student with the UQ Fire Team, was awarded an FWPA travel award to attend the 2016 World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) to be held on August 22-25 in Vienna, Austria. The award was made on the basis of her … Continue reading Postgraduate student awarded travel funding from FWPA
In October, two members of the fire research group, Nicholas Doyle and Richard Emberley, gave presentations at the 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan. Nicholas Doyle presented the work he completed for his undergraduate thesis in … Continue reading 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology
