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Introduction to heat transfer problems in fire engineering including steady state and transient conduction, convection and radiation. Fundamentals of burning objects from combustion chemistry, ignition, flame spread, flame heights and fire plumes.
Fire Dynamics is one of the key competences required for practicing fire engineers nationally1 and internationally2. This core skill deals the fundamental behaviour and underlying physics of fire at different stages, and fire engineers need sound knowledge of all areas in this skill set. This course provides in depth knowledge of fire dynamics via lectures, videos, tutorials and laboratory practical work.
Heat transfer mechanisms (convection, conduction and radiation) involving fires, surfaces, and gases, and their implication in several fire scenarios.Ignition of gases, liquid and gases, including practice laboratory work and their implication in several fire scenarios.Thermochemistry applied to fire engineering, including combustion reactions in ventilated and under ventilated environment, heat of combustion, pyrolysis and species yields.Heat release rate from pool fires and burning solid fuels and the oxygen depletion calorimeter method, including practical work on cone calorimeter and “furniture” calorimeter.Mass loss rate of liquid fires and solid materials, including pyrolysis and burning behaviour of wood and plastics.Design Fires, including their use and implications in the fire design process of buildings.Fire plumes and jet ceilings, including their application in fire engineering and limitations
ENGR403
ENCI663
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Andres Valencia
Aatif Khan and Andres Valencia
The assessment for this course will comprise three main components – a test, a final exam, and assignments. The weighting for each of these is given below.Competency and Mastery testPercentage of grade: 55 %Virtual Design Fire Report and presentationPercentage of grade: 20%Ignition lab reportPercentage of grade: 12.5%Cone Calorimeter lab report Percentage of grade: 12.5%Total: 100%
Hurley, Morgan J. et al; SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering ; Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2016.
Karlsson, Bjorn. , Quintiere, James G; Enclosure fire dynamics ; CRC Press, 2000.
As a UC student you have free access to the following electronic course textbooks that will be used in this course:A Heat Transfer Textbook, 5th edition → https://ahtt.mit.edu/Fire Engineering Design Guide → https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/15062Enclosure Fire → https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/b22214/enclosure-fire-dynamics-secondedition-bj%C3%B6rn-karlsson-james-quintierePrinciples of fire behavior→ https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781315369655/principles-firebehavior-james-quintiereSFPE Handbook of Fire Engineering → https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781315369655/principlesfire-behavior-james-quintiereIgnition Handbook → Available in EPS librarySome lecture handouts will be made available on LEARN. The lecture notes are provided for your convenience and might contain errors and omissions. It is the students’ responsibility to ensure that the missing information are identified, understood and corrected appropriately as part of the learning process. Please ensure any equations or relationships applied in the assignment, lab reports, project and tests are attained from credible references and not directly from the lecture notes.This course, especially the Virtual Design Fire Project will require your ability to formulate scientific, engineering based justifications to support the assumptions and inputs you proposed in your design fires. Several fire engineering journals within the literature, such as Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Fire and Materials etc. can be accessed from the UC Library, and will be useful sources of information.
Domestic fee $1,344.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Environmental Engineering .