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Hassan MK, Tao Z, Hossain MD, Pathirana S, Todhunter A. (2024). Proceedings of the International Conference on Fire Safety Engineering Research and Practice (iCFSERP-2024), edited by Hassan et al., 24-27 Nov 2024, Sydney, Australia, ISBN: 978-1-7636843-0-0, 734 pp. 

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This conference proceedings covers different disciplines of fire safety engineering, including Fire behaviour of steel and composite structures, Fire behaviour of concrete materials and structures, Fire behaviour of cladding systems, Fire retardant materials, Fire safety and protection systems (including bush fire and EV fire), and Development in fire modelling. Each individual conference papers can be downloaded from below links.

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PLENARY AND KEYNOTE PAPERS
Plenary title: New Fire Protection Technologies for Bushfire Condition.  
Plenary Speaker: Professor Guan Heng Yeoh
Keynote title: Bridging Gaps of Research and Practice of Fire Resistance.
Paper ID: Keynote-1
Keynote Speaker: Professor Yong Wang
Keynote title: The SureFire Project on Smart Firefighting in Dense Urban Environments.
Paper ID: Keynote-2
Keynote Speaker: Professor Asif Sohail Usmani
Keynote title: Challenging Issues on Fire-Resistance of Steel Buildings.
Paper ID: Keynote-3
Keynote Speaker: Professor Guo-Qiang Li
Keynote title: Modelling ember storms at the wildland-urban interface.
Paper ID: Keynote-4
Keynote Speaker: Professor Jason J. Sharples
Keynote title: Recent developments in building evacuation models for fire emergencies.
Paper ID: Keynote-5
Keynote Speaker: Professor Lee Wai Ming
Keynote title: Engineering bioinspired fire-retardant coatings for general fire protection.
Paper ID: Keynote-6
Keynote Speaker: Professor Pingan Song
Keynote title: Risk mitigation for combustible cladding in residential buildings
Paper ID: Keynote-7
Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Kate Nguyen
Keynote title: The challenges of designing and building for fire resistance of structures in an ever-changing building environment.
Paper ID: Keynote-8
Keynote Speaker: Dr Linus Lim
Keynote title: When Seconds Matter: Home and Residential Fire Sprinklers
Paper ID: Keynote-9
Keynote Speaker: Mark Whybro AFSM  
  
FIRE BEHAVIOUR OF STEEL AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 
Title: Research on mechanical properties of duplex stainless steel S22053 at elevated temperature and after fire
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230029
Authors: Tiancheng Chen, Shenggang Fan, Qingfeng Xu, Kuiyuan Xu, Jinpeng Luo, Yuxian Tang  
Title: In-fire and post-fire mechanical properties of high nitrogen and low nickel stainless steel S35657
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230154
Authors: Tiangui Xu, Shenggang Fan, Meijing Liu, Ganping Shu, Laizhu Jiang
Title: Mechanical properties and creep strain of high strength steel at elevated temperatures
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230043
Authors: Weiyong Wang, Ziqi Wang
Title: Stress-strain-temperature response of Grade 1200 ultra-high strength steel (UHSS) tube under the creep and fire multi-phase loading scenario
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230121
Authors: Fatemeh Azhari, Amin Heidarpour
Title: Research on the collapse mechanism and path of the steel frame structure under spreading fire
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230097
Authors: Xuan Wei, Jiepeng Liu, Lei Xu
Title: Vertical seismic effect on fire structure and behaviour of pool fires
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230027
Authors: Tzu-Yan Tseng, Kuang-Chung Tsai
Title: Numerical analysis on fire behaviour of concrete-filled steel tubular columns after lateral impact
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230012
Authors: Sun-Hang Ji, Wen-Da Wang, Yan-Li Shi
Title: Experimental study on fire performance of multi-loaded geopolymeric recycled concrete filled steel tubular columns
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230022
Authors: Tian-Yi Song, Xue-Shun Peng, Chen-Liu Li, Kai Xiang
Title: Impact of metakaolin and crumb rubber on fire resistance of concrete bricks
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230148
Authors Mohamed Abou Sif, Mariyana Aida Ab Kadir, Musa Mohammed, Thulfiqar Salim, Nurul Hafizah Ismail, M. Z. Ramlil, M.N. Irfan
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Title: Comparative study on the fire performance of concrete-filled steel tubular and steel tube-confined reinforced concrete columns
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230062
Authors: Lalita Lama, Thomas Gernay, Huu Tai Thai, Tuan Ngo, Brian Uy
Title: Behaviour of ultra-high-strength concrete-filled double-skin tubes under elevated temperature
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230055
Authors: Mohamed Ghannam, Sameh Lotfy, A.H.A. Abdelrahman, Md Kamrul Hassan, and Mohammad Al Hamaydeh
Title: Critical temperature of concentrically compressed square cfst column exposed to standard fire
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230070
Authors: Congying Chen, Wei Li
Title: Fire behaviour and design of square tubed-reinforced-concrete columns: isolated columns to framed columns
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230037
Authors: Dongdong Yang, Faqi Liu, Shan-Shan Huang, Hua Yang
Title: Investigation on post-fire overall stability of restrained Q690 high strength structural steel columns under eccentric compression
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230129
Authors: Lin-Xin Song, Guo-Qiang Li, Yong C. Wang
Title: Numerical analysis on collapse resistance of concrete-filled square steel tubular column to H-beam connection with outer ring plate under exposure to high temperature
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230109
Authors: Jing-Xuan Wang, Yu-Feng Zhang, Wen-Da Wang
Title: Experimental study on fire resistance of CLT-concrete composite slabs under one-side fire exposure
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230034
Authors: Mingqian Wang, Yubing Leng, Fuwen Zhang , Lingzhu Chen , Xi Chen , Qingfeng Xu
Title: Experimental study on fire resistance of steel reinforced concrete frame structures
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230023
Authors: Guangyong Wang, Zheng Li, Xingchen Cui and Jin-ru Zhong
Title: Simplified numerical modelling of thin-walled steel tubular stub columns subjected to fire
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230017
Authors: Yamin Wang, Zhong Tao, Utsab Katwal
Title: Numerical evaluation of the impact of steel confinement on the load capacity of fire exposed reinforced concrete sections
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230080
Authors: Mahesh Gaikwad, Suvir Singh, Pradeep Bhargava, N. Gopalakrishnan
Title: Fire Performance of structural steel tubular sections with passive fire-resistant mortar
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230152
Authors: Mohd Dilawar Bhat, Umesh Kumar Sharma, P.C Ashwin Kumar
  
FIRE BEHAVIOUR OF CONCRETE MATERIALS &STRUCTURES 
Title: Bond behavior between reinforcing steel and concrete at elevated temperatures- beam test
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230174
Authors: Ira Banoth, Anil Agarwal
Title: Compressive strength of 3D printable geopolymers after exposure to elevated temperatures
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230044
Authors: Zhu Pan, Hangyu Yang, Gong Zheng, Li Wang, Yifang Cao
Title: Effect of temperature and cooling method on mechanical and fracture properties of ultra-high performance geopolymer concrete
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230147
Authors: Junjie Huang, Jun Li, Chengqing Wu
Title: Fire resistance level of lightweight fibre-reinforced magnesia composite refractory wall systems
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230124
Authors: Khin Thandar Soe, Mark Pulham
Title: Influential factors on the hygrothermal behavior of fire-exposed concrete
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230137
Authors: Panpan Cheng, Hehua Zhu, Dajun Yuan
Title: Study on lateral impact performance of steel tube-reinforced concrete (ST-RC) column under fire
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230082
Authors: Yan Hong-Bao, Gang Wang, Chong Tang
Title: Improving the thermal performance of concrete using PCM
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230010
Authors: K.A.D.Y.T. Kahandawa Arachchi, Olivia Mirza, Fidelis Mashiri, Sameera Pathirana, Leonardo Dimeski, Jason Saouma
Title: Magnesium oxychloride cement-based composites: unveiling fire resistance for structural and non-structural applications
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230120
Authors: S. Rawat, Farhan Ahmad, Khin Soe, Lihai Zhang, Y.X. Zhang
Title: Methods of testing concrete spalling due to fire: A review
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230025
Authors: Duc T. L. Pham, David Lange, Jose L. Torero, Vinh T. N. Dao
Title: Existing and potential solutions for fire-resistance of frp-jacketed concrete columns
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230007
Authors: Mohamed Elshorbagi, Zhong Tao, Cheng Jiang
Title: Residual capacity and post-heating response of multiple strengthening approaches using CFRP
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230009
Authors: Mohamed Elshorbagi, Zhong Tao, Cheng Jiang
Title: Fire spalling behavior of Prestressed concrete beam with natural fiber
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230048
Authors: Mitsuo Ozawa, Koki Asahizawa, Kentaro Fujimoto
Title: Shear performance of ultra-high performance concrete beams after fire exposure
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230032
Authors: Kai Yan, Jiacheng Yang
Title: Evaluation of fire spalling behaviour of ultra-high-strength-PVA fiber-reinforced concrete by ring-restrained heating test
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230065
Authors: Yuki Kobayashi, Shinji Sasaoka, Kazuki Shimamura, Keiichi Nakamura, Mitsuo Ozawa
Title: Numerical simulation of post-fire seismic performances scoria aggregate concrete joints
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230165
Authors: Bin Cai, Wen-Li Hu, Feng Fu
  
FIRE BEHAVIOUR OF CLADDING SYSTEMS 
Title: Influence of experimental conditions on the thermal decomposition and char formation of ACP cladding materials
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230058
Authors: Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha, Md Kamrul Hassan, Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Cheng Wang
Title: Investigation of trapezoial steel claddings under combined wind and bushfire conditions
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230104
Authors: Jenothan Makeswaran, Mahen Mahendran
Title: Evaluating the fire performance of aluminium composite panel cladding materials through cone calorimetry
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230059
Authors: Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha, Md Kamrul Hassan, Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Cheng Wang
Title: Experimental study on different types of non-combustible cladding panels using butane torch
Paper ID: iiCFSERP20230088
Authors: Md Rayhan Hasnat, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha
Title: Pyrolysis and combustion analysis of common external wall insulations
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230131

Authors: Neythra Weerakkody, Xuelin Zhang, Nathan White, Malavika Arun, Joe Abraham and Khalid Moinuddin
Title: Thermal characterisation of composite cladding core materials using evolved gas analysis
Paper ID: iiCFSERP20230110
Authors: Md Rayhan Hasnat, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha
  
FIRE RETARDANT MATERIALS
Title: MXene networks based flame retardant polymer composites
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230013
Authors: Wei Wang, Guan Heng Yeoh
Title: Synthesis of vanillin-based vitrimer with excellent flame retardant, toughened, antimicrobial and low dielectric properties
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230026
Authors: Siqi Huo, Guofeng Ye
 
Title: Comparative study on fire behaviour of solid aluminium sheets coated with intumescent materials
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230103
Authors: Touha Nazrun, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Rayhan Hasnat, Md Delwar Hossain, Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Swapan Saha
Title: Fabrication of P/N/Si-cointegrated ammonium polyphosphate with highly efficient flame retardancy for epoxy
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230116
Authors: Hong Yan, Qiang Sun
Title: Alkali silicate particles as intumescing agents in fire protective coatings
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230136
Authors: Hafeez Ahmadi, Aixiao Fu, Hao Wu, Kim Dam-Johansen
Title: Swedish pine weathered treated fire performance: an experimental investigation
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230155
Authors: Enya Zhang,Tracy Bradford, Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni, Sergey Zagorsky, Simon Cox, Eleni Asimakopoulou
    
FIRE SAFETY AND PROTECTION SYSTEMS 
Title: Effect of installation approach on performance of firestopping systems
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230047
Authors: Zhaoyu Ye, Anthony Abu
Title: Performance-based analysis for determination of time to untenable conditions in building fires
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230176
Authors: Alexander Christal, Md Kamrul Hassan
Title: Flame resistive elastomeric composites with excellent dielectric performance
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230006
Authors: Tariq Nazir, Arslan Khalid, Guan Yeoh
Title: Towards safer school evacuations: an investigation into the role of authority figures on secondary school students’ fire pre-evacuation behaviours
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230079
Authors: Hongwei Liu, Zimo Liu, Kee Chin Seng, Mei Ye Kho, Farid Wajdi Akashah
Title: Experimental studies of bushfire resistant window shutters exposed to radiant heat and flame zone conditions
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230061
Authors: Birunthan Perinpalingam, Anthony Ariyanayagam
Title: Applying the concept of verification in fire engineering to the wildland urban interface
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230016
Authors: Greg Penney, Greg Baker, Andres Valencia, Dan Gorham, Anthony Power 
Title: Development of wildland fire exposure indicator for performance-based design applications
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230170
Authors: Andres Valencia, Greg Penney, Greg Baker, Daniel Gorham, Fearghal Gill, Dongqi Lin, Marwan Katurji, Anthony Power
Title: Bush fires of central highlands of Sri Lanka: What is the triple bottom line?
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230077
Authors: D.A.M. De Silva, M.A.E.K. Jayasinghe, A.M.S.M.R.S.G. Bandara, M.M.S.C. Senevirathne, Eleni Asimakopoulou, C.L. Liyanage, M. Esham, Bob Walley
Title: Wireless fire detection systems: benefits, limitations and applicability within the built environment
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230173
Authors: Jesse Comino, Sameera Pathirana
Title: Thermal characteristics of pinewood treated with additives at varied temperatures
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230102
Authors: Xuelin Zhang, Paul Joseph, Maurice Guerrieri, Khalid Moinuddin
Title: Numerical analysis of the impact of electric bicycle fire on the occupant evacuation in old residential building
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230071
Authors: Liu Zimo, Liu Hongwei, Nur Farhana Azmi, Farid Wajdi
Title: Evaluating fire resistance level of reinforced concrete columns in
basement during electric vehicle fires

Paper ID: iCFSERP20230178
Authors: Sofie Sun, Md Kamrul Hassan, Bulbul Ahmed, Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha
Title: Scalable fabrication of monolithic, high-performance Al2O3-SiO2 aerogel composites base on ambient pressure drying for suppressing thermal runaway propagation of lithium batteries
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230089
Authors: Pan He, Yuelei Pan, Long Shi, Heping Zhang, Xudong Cheng
Title: Evaluation of fire spread in energy storage systems due to thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries using CFD Modelling
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230179
Authors: Christopher Koch, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha
Title: Experimental and analytical analysis for hydraulic friction loss of fluorine free foams solution
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230049
Authors: Kyle Farrell, Md Kamrul Hassan
Title: Balancing fire safety and thermal efficiency in high-rise building façades
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230181
Authors: Raviendra De Silva, Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Md Kamrul Hassan and Keivan Bamdad
Title: Forensic analysis & investigation model of a fatal high-rise building using fire modeling in Pakistan
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230171
Authors: Mohsin A. Shaikh, Song Weiguo*, Salman Cheema, Rehmat Kareema, Usman Shahid
DEVELOPMENTS IN FIRE MODELLING 
Title: Physical modelling of dynamic bushfire propagation leading to parameterisation for operational modelling
Paper ID: Invited Paper-1
Authors: Professor Khalid Moinuddin
Title: Computational material synthesis approach for characterising flame-retardant mechanisms of composite polymers
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230052
Authors: Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Chang Tian, Timothy Bo Yuan Chen, Qian Chen
Title: Numerical investigation of water mist fire suppression effectiveness at various nozzle heights
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230024
Authors: Kyle Farrell, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain, Swapan Saha
Title: Model to predict pressure effect on the flash point of liquid fuels at sub-atmospheric pressures
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230108
Authors: Horng-Jang Liaw, Chan-Cheng Chen
Title: Experimental and molecular dynamics investigation on thermal safety and oxidation mechanism of graphdiyne type materials
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230087
Authors: Qian Chen,Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Timothy Bo Yuan Chen, Richard Kwok Kit Yuen
Title: Zonal and sequential extraction design for large flat space to achieve perpetual tenability
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230011
Authors: Mingjun Xu, Kang Hai Tan, Man Pun Wan
Title: Effect of terrian characteristics on wind fire interaction in wildland urban interface
Paper ID: Invited Paper-3
Authors: Dr Maryam Ghodrat
Title: Accuracy of smoke detector models for predicting smoke alarm activation time using FDS modelling
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230130
Authors: Matthew Cox, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain
Title: Flame retardant mechanism of phosphorous-based polymer composites: a molecular dynamics study
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230042
Authors: Ivan Miguel De Cachinho Cordeiro, Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Timothy Bo Yuan Chen, Guan Heng Yeoh
Title: Grassfire propagation on sloped terrains at lower wind velocity, with varied ignition fire line widths
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230041
Authors: Jasmine Innocent, Khalid Moinuddin, Duncan Sutherland
Title: Fire safety in modern urban infrastructures: A 3D CFD approach to complex fires using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230119
Authors: Ankit Sharma, Poomurugan C, Kirti Bhushan Mishra
Title: Numerical modelling of liquid fuel fire whirl
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230138
Authors: Pushpendra Kumar Vishwakarma, Kirti Bhushan Mishra
Title: Travelling fire and its application on structural fire assessment
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230180
Authors: Bernabe Zaragoza
Title: Numerical study on the fire dynamics of cross laminated timber compartments
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230093
Authors: Timothy Bo Yuan Chen, Anthony Chun Yin Yuen, Ivan Miguel De Cachinho Cordeiro, Qian Chen
Title: Investigating fire spread in kitchen exhaust ducts using fire dynamics simulator
Paper ID: iCFSERP20230177
Authors: Lisa Chen, Md Kamrul Hassan, Md Delwar Hossain