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Presentations from the most recent Structures in Fire Forum 

April 2025 - Nucleus Building, University of Edinburgh [Agenda]


  • “Loss of composite action in Engineered Wood Products”. --- Antonela Colic, University of Edinburgh [pdf, 3.1 MB]
  • “Composite action of OSB-CFS beam in fire” --- Zhuoran Feng, University of Manchester [pdf, 1.4 MB]
  • “Fire Resistance Of Reinforced Concrete Structures Utilising Reinforcement Couplers”. --- Ahmed Elsharkawi, Ashton Fire [pdf, 2.1 MB]
  • “A round-robin study from 12 UK Fire Services on the fire safety of open-sided car parks: Is current guidance adequate”. ---Morvarid Koohkhezri, University of Liverpool [pdf, 5MB]
  • “A brief historical review of double exposure for internal loadbearing walls”. --- Vasilis Koutsomarkos, Building Safety Regulator [pdf, 4.2 MB]
  • “Fire safety in existing buildings - knowing what you have and how to know if it’s enough”.  --- Susan Deeny, Arup [no pdf]
  • “Fire hazards of informal and humanitarian shelters”. --- Sam Stevens, Kindling [pdf at a later date]
  • “Simulation of fire spread in large compartments under different ventilation conditions” --- Stephen Welch, University of Edinburgh [pdf, 4.9 MB]
  • “Structural response of steel-composite structures in under-ventilated travelling fires: numerical insights from the BST/FRS 1993 Fire Tests”. --- Zhuojun Nan, TU Deflt [pdf, 1.9 MB]

Structures in Fire Forum Presentations for previous fourms:

  • September 2024 - IStructE
  • May 2024 - Liverpool
  • September 2023 - IStructE
  • May 2023 - Edinburgh
  • September 2022 - IStructE
  • April 2019 - IStructE
  • September 2018 - Warwick University
  • April 2018 - IStuctE
  • September 2017 - University of Edinburgh
  • April 2017 - IStructE
  • September 2016 - University of Edinburgh
  • April 2016 - IStructE

Repository of presentations from historic Steel in Fire Forums (pre-2016 presentations can be found at www.steelinfire.org.uk