The Fascinating World Of Fire Science Episodes
064 - Heat stress in fires - from inside and outside with Denise Smith and Gavin Horn
Aug. 24, 2022
This amount of heat flux for this amount of time, routine conditions, check, done. This is how I used to do my engineering and tenability assessment related to heat stress... up till today when prof Denisse Smith and prof Ga…
059 - Residential fire safety with Dan Madrzykowski and Charlie Fleischmann
July 20, 2022
How much the fire scene at households has changed over the last 30 years? Why modern furniture burns worse than one made with wood, cotton and other natural materials? And what does that mean to firefighting? What challenges…
058 - Animal pyrocognition - a path to undestand our beginnings with fire with Ivo Jacobs
July 13, 2022
Have you wondered how fire science started? But I mean the real real start... not 1666 one, nor the one when we've started to build furnaces... The start when the first evolutionary ancestor of homo sapiens figured out this …
055 - The future is exciting with Arnold Dix (part 2)
June 22, 2022
I once said the future looks stupid... but after this discussion with Arnold Dix, I know - future is exciting. And for Fire Safety Engineers and others involved in fire protection - the future seems to be super exciting! In …
054 - The sustainability talk, tunnels and fire safety with Arnold Dix (part 1)
June 15, 2022
A few episodes ago I called for better communication in fire safety. And in this episode, tunnel fire safety legend Prof. Arnold Dix is answering that, by teaching us the ways of the 'sustainability' talk - how to communicat…
053 - The number one skill to thrive as an FSE I've learnt in 1 year of podcasting
June 8, 2022
It has been one year since I started this show. I've promised you that we will learn Fire Safety Engineering together, and today comes a great time to reflect on some lessons learnt. In this episode, I will take you on a sho…
050 - Wind, fire and a surprise
May 11, 2022
Episode 50! Time to celebrate, and for this one we have a surprise. A mysterious host takes over the show to interview a wind and fire modelling celebrity... Ok, this should be enough to not reveal everything once the show n…
043 - Some neglected areas in fire science with Vyto Babrauskas
March 23, 2022
It is always a pleasure to interview a true legend of fire safety. And when the topic of the interview is their thoughts on neglected areas of our discipline, based on almost five decades of experience? This must end up grea…
036 - Researching fire with firefighters - UL FSRI: Steve Kerber and Craig Weinschenk
Feb. 2, 2022
In this episode I was really happy to host two amazing researchers from UL FSRI - Dr Steve Kerber, the VP of Underwriter Laboratories and Director of UL Fire Safety Research Institute, and Dr Craig Weinschenk, research engin…
030 - Visibility Prediction Framework with Lukas Arnold
Dec. 8, 2021
If you ever had anything to do with Fire Safety Engineering, you have most likely touched the visibility in smoke. What's an easier way to explain how bad the conditions are inside of a building than saying how much smoke wa…
029 -Busses, flammability and an unknown force holding good solutions back... with Anja Hofmann-Böllinghaus
Dec. 1, 2021
This is not a fun episode. It starts with a tragedy, that fueled a whole field of research. Continues into disbelief, that one aspect of fire safety can be at the same chosen as the sole foundation of fire safety within a br…
022 - Combustion, fluid mechanics and fire safety engineering with Michael Gollner
Oct. 13, 2021
https://firelab.berkeley.edu/ this is the place you need to go! Ignition at different slope angles. Firebrand spotting. Fire whirls. What does connect these various fire phenomena? They are all driven by fluid dynamics and c…
018 - Engineered timber with Danny Hopkin
Sept. 15, 2021
Engineered timber is on a trajectory to become the construction material of the future. However, on that pathway there stands the fire issue. Wood burns, it is inevitable. This is something we must accept, and learn to work …
014 - A joyrney through the scales of fire phenomena with Sara McAllister
Aug. 18, 2021
Have you ever wondered how is a fire of a match or candle different from a wildfire? Or maybe rather, why is it different? What is it, that makes the fires at different scales behave in such a different manner? What are the …
010 - Seeking the origins of standardized fire testing and ancient fire protection materials with John Gales
July 21, 2021
Did you know that the standard temperature-time curve, which is the underpinning of the fire resistance of assemblies, is over 100 years old? Once you know that, you cannot stop but think about how this affects modern constr…