BiTP - Safety & Fire Technology

Table of contents

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Academic entrepreneurship based on the activities of Harvard University. Technology transfer for the security discipline

23

The significance of project manager’s attributes and those for members of a project team

31

Tank explosions involving industrial gases – a real threat or an exaggerated fear?

51

The reconstruction of fire-damaged industrial steel halls

67

Influence of wood type on the response time of optical beam smoke detectors

83

Combined approach to solving Issues of heat and gas exchange caused by fires in different locations

89

Universal index of endogenous fire hazards

99

Linear programming as a computational procedure useful in the fire resistance evaluation of a steel loadbearing frame structure

121

Authoritative fire load density value at a building compartment – nominal value taken from a single inventory or, alternatively, a characteristic value statistically deduced

131

Methods of creating a mathematical model of an energy component of chemical and physical processes that occur in wood when it is heated prior to the flaming phase

139

Specific nature of phlegmatizing air-heptan mixture using aerosol and nitrogen binary mixture

151

Building materials radioactivity in Poland

159

Requirements, test methods and criteria for assessing optical signaling devices (VAD). The method of measuring light distribution

165

An analysis of the location of emergency exits as a factor impacting on human safety under fire conditions in road tunnels with the longitudinal ventilation system