Dear Colleagues, Lightweight, high-performance composite materials, such as fibre-reinforced polymers, are rapidly replacing conventional building materials. Nevertheless, these polymeric materials are often associated with life-threatening fire hazards due to the production of toxic substances in the event of fires. Fire incidents caused by these highly flammable polymers have increased dramatically over the last decade. Therefore, Read more about MDPI Molecules Special Issue “New Prospects in Flame-Retardant Materials”[…]

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, stuff and students stay at home to keep social distance. To take advantage of precious time, an online Molecular Dynamic (MD) simulation training workshop was delivered by the ARC Training Centre, which can build new research capacity for the stuff and students and fill the missing knowledge gap. During this Read more about Group Activities – MD Simulation Workshop[…]

Congratulations to Mr Cheng Wang, who has submited his PhD Thesis, for his thesis titled: “The development and implementation of a population balance method-based soot model in diffusion flames”! Cheng is currently working as a research fellow at UNSW.

Dear fellow Colleagues, On behalf of our Centre Director Prof Guan Heng Yeoh, also an advisory committee member of ICPER2020, we proudly invite you to submit your work on production, energy, sustainability and reliability. This conference will be held in the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK), Kuching, Malaysisa, on 14-16 July 2020. The paper submission Read more about International Conference on Production, Energy & Reliability (ICPER2020) – Call for papers[…]

Inspired by the advanment of repid development in “machine learning” techniques, we now proposed using genetic algorithm theory to optimise the pyrolysis kinetics input data of any polymer composites for our fire field models (i.e. computational fluid dynamics based). Typically, pyrolysis kinetics is extracted via thermal gravemetry (TGA), where the solid decomposition is studied in Read more about Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Formulate Simulation Inputs for Fire Models[…]

On the 15 November 2019, a group of ARC Training Centre researchers from Western Sydney University (WSU) lead by A/Prof. Swapan Saha and Dr. Yaping He visited our group. During the meeting, A/Prof. Saha introduced the current research conducted in WSU and discussed future collaboration between WSU and UNSW including sharing the fire testing facility Read more about Partnership with the University of Western Sydney to create capacities in fire safety research[…]

On 27th August 2019, our Centre Director Prof Guan Heng Yeoh has delivered a plenary section in the AFAC19 research forum hosted in Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Victoria, Australia. Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) is a national council for fire & emergency service, partnering with Bushfire Natural Hazards CRC and Read more about AFAC19 – Research Forum presentation[…]

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre for Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies has been officially launched on the 2nd of July 2019. Partnering with government bodies, domestic and international companies and universities, this training centre will create knowledge on novel green and durable fire retardant materials, advanced fire models for urban and built Read more about Official Launch Event[…]

ARC Training Centre in Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies Workshop was held successfully on 1st of July, 2019. The topic of this workshop is “An Integrated Approach to Fire Protection of Building Materials and Structures”. It is a great opportunity and platform for academics, industrial partners and the government agencies to get together and Read more about ARC Training Centre in Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies Workshop[…]

On behalf of our Centre Director (Prof Guan Heng Yeoh), Deputy Director (Prof Chun Hui Wang), and Centre Manager (Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen), it is our great pleasure to invite you to the official launch of the ARC Training Centre in Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technolgies on Tuesday 2 July 2019. We will also Read more about ARC Training Centre in Fire Safety Launch Event[…]