OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fire Technology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Survey of Machine Learning Algorithms Based Forest Fires Prediction and Detection Systems	83
An Experimental Study on Preventing Thermal Runaway Propagation in Lithium-Ion Battery Module Using Aerogel and Liquid Cooling Plate Together	62
A Novel Efficient Video Smoke Detection Algorithm Using Co-occurrence of Local Binary Pattern Variants	58
Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Fire Engineering and Sciences	57
Machine Vision Based Fire Detection Techniques: A Survey	46
Experimental Study of Self-heating Ignition of Lithium-Ion Batteries During Storage: Effect of the Number of Cells	35
Prototyping and Validating a Non-immersive Virtual Reality Serious Game for Healthcare Fire Safety Training	34
Full-Scale Experimental Study on the Combustion Behavior of Lithium Ion Battery Pack Used for Electric Vehicle	29
Analysing Flammability Characteristics of Green Biocomposites: An Overview	29
Handling Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles: Preventing and Recovering from Hazardous Events	27
Computed Tomography Analysis of Li-Ion Battery Case Ruptures	26
Fire Detection Using Multi Color Space and Background Modeling	25
Real-Time Video Fire Detection via Modified YOLOv5 Network Model	25
Unannounced Evacuation Experiment in a High-Rise Hotel Building with Evacuation Elevators: A Study of Evacuation Behaviour Using Eye-Tracking	24
Environmentally Friendly Firefighting Foams Used to Fight Flammable Liquid Fire	22
Semantic Fire Segmentation Model Based on Convolutional Neural Network for Outdoor Image	21
Study on the Performance of Parallel Air-Cooled Structure and Optimized Design for Lithium-Ion Battery Module	21
Review of Current Practice in Probabilistic Structural Fire Engineering: Permanent and Live Load Modelling	20
Wildland Fire Burned Areas Prediction Using Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network with Attention Mechanism	20
A Critical Appraisal of the UK’s Regulatory Regime for Combustible Façades	20
Multi-Scale Prediction For Fire Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network	20
Structural Capacity of One-Way Spanning Large-Scale Cross-Laminated Timber Slabs in Standard and Natural Fires	17
Condensed Aerosol Based Fire Extinguishing System Covering Versatile Applications: A Review	17
Flame Retardant Cellulose-Based Hybrid Hydrogels for Firefighting and Fire Prevention	16
Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Walls Under Fire: A Review	16

Extinction of Wood Fire: A Near-Limit Blue Flame Above Hot Smoldering Surface	16
The Historical Narrative of the Standard Temperature–Time Heating Curve for Structures	16
Impact of Repeated Exposure and Cleaning on Protective Properties of Structural Firefighting Turnout Gear	15
The Effect of Separation Distance Between Informal Dwellings on Fire Spread Rates Based on Experimental Data and Analytical Equations	15
Real-Time Fire Detection Algorithm Based on Support Vector Machine with Dynamic Time Warping Kernel Function	15
Numerical Study of Self-Heating Ignition of a Box of Lithium-Ion Batteries During Storage	14
The Use of Machine Learning for the Prediction of fire Resistance of Composite Shallow Floor Systems	14
Investigation on the Tunnel Curvature Effect upon the Ceiling Temperature of Tunnel Fires: A Numerical Simulation	14
Thermal Response of Timber Slabs Exposed to Travelling Fires and Traditional Design Fires	14
Generating Synthetic Sensor Data to Facilitate Machine Learning Paradigm for Prediction of Building Fire Hazard	13
Facade Fire Hazards of Bench-Scale Aluminum Composite Panel with Flame-Retardant Core	13
Quantifying Uncertainties in the Temperature–Time Evolution of Railway Tunnel Fires	13
Fire Experiment Inside a Very Large and Open-Plan Compartment: x-ONE	13
Fire Detection Based on Fractal Analysis and Spatio-Temporal Features	12
Thermal Analysis Infrastructure in OpenSees for Fire and its Smart Application Interface Towards Natural Fire Modelling	12
Effect of Rock Wool Waste on Compressive Behavior of Pumice Lightweight Aggregate Concrete After Elevated Temperature Exposure	12
Training with Augmented Data: GAN-based Flame-Burning Image Synthesis for Fire Segmentation in Warehouse	12
A Sociotechnical Systems Framework for Performance-Based Design for Fire Safety	12
Upward Flame Spread Over an Array of Discrete Thermally-Thin PMMA Plates	11
Expanding the FDS Simulation Capabilities to Fire Tunnel Scenarios Through a Novel Multi-scale Model	11
Deep-Learning Emulators of Transient Compartment Fire Simulations for Inverse Problems and Room-Scale Calorimetry	11
Investigating Coupled Effect of Radiative Heat Flux and Firebrand Showers on Ignition of Fuel Beds	11
Determination of Critical Separation Distance Between Dwellings in Informal Settlements Fire	11
Development of an Early Fire Detection Technique Using a Passive Infrared Sensor and Deep Neural Networks	11
A Digitized Fuel Load Surveying Methodology Using Machine Vision	11
Investigating Evacuation Behaviour in Retirement Facilities: Case Studies from New Zealand	11
A Deep Separable Convolutional Neural Network for Multiscale Image-Based Smoke Detection	11
Experimental Investigation on Temperature Profiles at Ceiling and Door of Subway Carriage Fire	10
Guidance for Treatment of High-Temperature Creep in Fire Resistance Analysis of Concrete Structures	10
Upward Fire Spread Rate Over Real-Scale EPS ETICS Façades	10
Experimental Investigation of Suppression of 18650 Lithium Ion Cell Array Fires with Water Mist	10
Fire Zone Diagram of Flame-retardant Cables: Ignition and Upward Flame Spread	10
From Social Science Research to Engineering Practice: Development of a Short Message Creation Tool for Wildfire Emergencies	10
The Influence of Sociodemographic Factors on the Theoretical Effectiveness of Fire Prevention Interventions on Fatal Residential Fires	10
A Review of Fire-Extinguishing Agents and Fire Suppression Strategies for Lithium-Ion Batteries Fire	10
Acoustical Extinction of Flame on Moving Firebrand for the Fire Protection in Wildland–Urban Interface	10
Effect of Fuel Bed Width on Upslope Fire Spread: An Experimental Study	10
Experimental Study on Burning Characteristics of the Large-Scale Transformer Oil Pool Fire with Different Extinguishing Methods	10
Fire Resistance Design of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Stub Columns	9
Real-Time Prediction of Smoke Spread Affected by Multiple Factors in Subway Tunnel Using CAERES-DNN Model	9
Predicting and Assessing Wildfire Evacuation Decision-Making Using Machine Learning: Findings from the 2019 Kincade Fire	9
A Study on Evacuation Behavior in Physical and Virtual Reality Experiments	9
Letter to the Editor: Design Fires for Open-Plan Buildings with Exposed Mass-Timber Ceiling	9
The Statistical Effectiveness of Fire Protection Measures: Learning from Real Fires in Germany	9
A Practical Approach for Fire Resistance Design of Restrained High-Strength Q690 Steel Beam Considering Creep Effect	9
Experimental Investigation on Fire Risk Assessment for Typical Interior Wallpapers	9
Multifactor Variance Assessment for Determining the Number of Repeat Simulation Runs in Evacuation Modelling	9
A Review of Tunnel Fire Evacuation Strategies and State-of-the-Art Research in China	9
FLAME: A Parametric Fire Risk Assessment Method Supporting Performance Based Approaches	9
A review on the role of functional limitations on evacuation performance using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health	8

Individual Driving Behaviour in Wildfire Smoke	8
A Framework for Intelligent Fire Detection and Evacuation System	8
Potential of Surrogate Modelling for Probabilistic Fire Analysis of Structures	8
Thermal Runaway and Fire Behaviors of Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Induced by Overheating and Overcharging	8
Elastic Modulus, Thermal Expansion, and Pyrolysis Shrinkage of Norway Spruce Under High Temperature	8
Modelling the Effects of Boundary Walls on the Fire Dynamics of Informal Settlement Dwellings	8
Effects of Ambient Parameters and Sample Width on Upward Flame Spread over Thermally Thin Solids	8
Hierarchical Temporal Memory Continuous Learning Algorithms for Fire State Determination	8
Ignition of Gases, Vapors, and Liquids by Hot Surfaces	8
A Thoroughgoing Study on Engineering Properties of High Strength Concrete at Elevated Temperatures	8
Numerical Modeling of Compartment Fires: Ventilation Characteristics and Limitation of Kawagoe’s Law	8
Estimating Smoke Alarm Effectiveness in Homes	8
Fire Hazard Analysis of Modern Vehicles in Parking Facilities	8
Verification of Similarity of Scaling Laws in Tunnel Fires with Natural Ventilation	8
Identifying Community Fire Hazards from Citizen Communication by Applying Transfer Learning and Machine Learning Techniques	8
New Approach to Distinguish Copper Molten Marks Based on Quantitative Microstructure Analysis Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction	8
Identification of Multiple Fire Sources in the Utility Tunnel Based on a Constrained Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm	7
Effectiveness Test and Evaluation of Transformer Fire Extinguishing System	7
Towards Fire Forensic Characteristics of Failed Cylindrical Format Lithium–Ion Cells and Batteries	7
Application of a Digitized Fuel Load Surveying Methodology to Office Buildings	7
Bayesian Inference of Fire Evolution Within a Compartment Using Heat Flux Measurements	7
Real Time Mine Fire Classification to Support Firefighter Decision Making	7
Single Image Desmoking via Attentive Generative Adversarial Network for Smoke Detection Process	7
Fire Test Performance of Eleven PFAS-Free Class B Firefighting Foams Varying Fuels, Admixture, Water Types and Foam Generation Techniques	7
Risk Tolerability Limits for Fire Engineering Design: Methodology and Reference Case Study	7
Societal Protection and Population Vulnerability: Key Factors in Explaining Community-Level Variation in Fatal Fires Involving Older Adults in Sweden	7
A Review on Flaming Ignition of Solid Combustibles: Pyrolysis Kinetics, Experimental Methods and Modelling	7
A Review on Fire Protection Systems in Military and Civilian Vehicles	7
Psychological Response in Fire: A Fuzzy Bayesian Network Approach Using Expert Judgment	7
Full-Scale Video-Based Detection of Smoke from Forest Fires Combining ViBe and MSER Algorithms	7
Hybrid Ensemble Based Machine Learning for Smart Building Fire Detection Using Multi Modal Sensor Data	6
Assessing Individual Evacuation Performance Moving on Long Stairs in a Subway Station: A Field Experiment	6
Development of a Field Deployable Firebrand Flux and Condition Measurement System	6
Theoretical and Numerical Study of Smoke Back-Layering Length for an Inclined Tunnel Under Longitudinal Ventilation	6
Pressure Effect on the Thermal Runaway Behaviors of Lithium-Ion Battery in Confined Space	6
Assessment of a Method to Enhance the Momentum of Water Mist: Co-Flow Jet Water Mist System	6
Quantitative Analysis of the Influence of Air Entrainment Restriction Degree on Burning Characteristics of Two Parallel Rectangular Pool Fires in Still Air	6
Visual Fire Power: An Algorithm for Measuring Heat Release Rate of Visible Flames in Camera Footage, with Applications in Facade Fire Experiments	6
The Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Revisited	6
The Propensity of Wooden Crevices to Smoldering Ignition by Firebrands	6
OpenFIRE: An Open Computational Framework for Structural Response to Real Fires	6
Evaluating the Protective Performance of Municipal Firefighting Suits During Firefighter’s Motion Under Fire Exposure	6
Active Barrier Combining Fire-Resistant Fiberglass Fabric and Water Sprinkler System for Protection Against Forest Fires	6
Review of Research on the Fire Behavior of Simple Shear Connections	6
Numerical Investigation on the Asymmetric Flow Characteristics of Two Propane Fires of Unequal Heat Release Rate in Open Space	6
Ignition and Charring of PVC-Based Electric Cables	6
Research on the Reversible and Irreversible Heat Generation of LiNi1−x−yCoxMnyO2-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries	6
Firebrands Generated in Shurijo Castle Fire on October 30th, 2019	6
Deep Convolutional Network with Pixel-Aware Attention for Smoke Recognition	6
Performance by Various Water Mist Nozzles in Extinguishing Liquid Pool Fires	6
A Methodology for Experimental Quantification of Firebrand Generation from WUI Fuels	6
The Influence of Airflow Rate on the Thermal Runaway Propagation Characteristics of Lithium-Ion Batteries in a Low-Pressure Environment	6
Physiological Capacity During Simulated Stair Climbing Evacuation at Maximum Speed Until Exhaustion	6
Influence of the Slope and Delay on Passenger Evacuation from a Fire Along a Railway Tunnel with Natural Ventilation	6
Numerical Study on Effect of Ambient Humidity Variation on Self-heating and Spontaneous Ignition of the Eucalyptus Bark Pile	6
Automation in Fire Safety Engineering Using BIM and Generative Design	6
Ignition and Burning of Fibreboard Exposed to Transient Irradiation	6
Comprehensive Failure Analysis in Tehran Refinery Fire Accident: Application of Accimap Methodology and Quantitative Domino Effect Analysis	6
Near-Field Radiant Heat Flux from Open-Air Gasoline and Diesel Pool Fires: Modified Point Source and Discretized Solid Flame Models	5
Discovering Graphical Heuristics on Fire-Induced Spalling of Concrete Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence	5
Cost–Benefit Analysis of Fire Protection in Buildings: Application of a Present Net Value Approach	5
Smart Smoke Control as an Efficient Solution for Smoke Ventilation in Converted Cellars of Historic Buildings	5
Fire and Smoke Detection Using Capsule Network	5
Acoustic-Driven Airflow Flame Extinguishing System Design and Analysis of Capabilities of Low Frequency in Different Fuels	5
Regulatory Controls for Buildings in Wildfire-Prone Areas of Australia	5
Two-Dimensional Analysis on Ceiling Jet Temperature Characteristics in a Semicircular Tunnel	5
Special Issue on “Smart Systems in Fire Engineering”	5
Automatic Data Generation Method for Precise Ceiling Temperature Prediction of Cables Fire in the Utility Tunnel and Full-Scale Experimental Verification	5
CFD Simulations of Fire Propagation in Horizontal Cable Trays Using a Pyrolysis Model with Stochastically Determined Geometry	5
Population Trends and Fire Prevention in Merseyside UK	5
Using Micro-Scale and Solid Material Data for Modelling Heat Transfer in Stone Wool Composites Under Heat Exposures	5
Multiphysics Modelling of Stone Wool Fire Resistance	5
The Implications of Post-Fire Physical Features of Cylindrical 18650 Lithium-Ion Battery Cells	5
Fire Behaviour of a Prestressed Thin-Walled Concrete V-Beam	5
A Review of the Biomechanics of Staircase Descent: Implications for Building Fire Evacuations	5
Development of the Fire-Retardant Truss Core Sandwich Structures Using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites	5
Heat Release Rate Characterization of NFPA 1403 Compliant Training Fuels	5
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Effects of Fire Location on the Smoke Temperature Distribution in a Branched Tunnel	5
Improving the Fire Performance of Structural Insulated Panel Core Materials with Intumescent Flame-Retardant Epoxy Resin Adhesive	5