Call for New PhD Candidates

• New Knowledge on green and durable fire retardant materials and structures
• advanced fire models for urban and built environment
• Development of novel fire suppression technologies
• Reduced-scale and full-scale flammability testings for compliance with fire safety regulatory standards.

 

Competitive Advantage

• Strong strategic partnerships and collaborationswithin universities, government bodies and domestic and global industries in fire safety.
• Accelerate the transformation of Australian industries towards material and product developments of fire retardant materials and structures.
• Creation of new Standards to ensure high-level fire safety regulatory standards are attained.

 

Recent research projects

• Development of green and durable fire retardant materials and coatings for building claddings and lightweight structures.
• modelling of fire propagation and evacuation of occupants on maritime platforms
• Probabilistic and risk assessments to building fires and big data analytics for fire safety.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Successful applications

• Quakers Hill nursing home fire, Fire and Rescue NSW.
• Risk characterisations of building claddings via big data analytics, Finance, Services & Innovation NSW.

 

Facilities and infrastructure

• Access to a range of bench-top and full-scale experimental equipment and facilities which entail:
  (i)   multi-scale flammability assessments with realistic fire conditions;
  (ii)  detail measurement of fire effluents including gas toxicity, smoke density and particles.

 

For more information

Professor Guan Heng Yeoh
Director
T: +61 2 9385 4099
E: g.yeoh@unsw.edu.au