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239 - Assessing post-fire structural damage in tunnels with Negar Elhami-Khorasani
A tunnel can ride out a fire without collapsing (or even critical visible structural damage), but a question whether it is safe for operations, and what is its long-term residual fire resistance remains. With repair bills bei...
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Feb. 18, 2026
239 - Assessing post-fire structural damage in tunnels with Negar Elhami-Khorasani
A tunnel can ride out a fire without collapsing (or even critical visible structural damage), but a question whether it is safe for operations, and what is its long-term residual fire resistance remains. With repair bills bei...
Feb. 11, 2026
238 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 19 - Defining fires in your models
Welcome to another fire fundamentals episode! Today we dig into how to place a fire in a model so results reflect real physics. From plume inputs to FDS burners, we show where HRRPUA, radiative fraction, and D* make or break ...
Feb. 4, 2026
237 - Fire Fundamentals pt. 18 - Explosions with Ali Rangwala and Lorenz Boeck
Welcome back to Fire Fundamentals! Today with prof. Ali Rangwala from WPI and dr Lorenz Boeck from Rembe and WPI we take the world of explosion protection engineering. In this episode we touch: • distinguishing fires and expl...
Jan. 28, 2026
236 - Fitting an efficient smoke control system in a confined space
A tight, historic cellar. Arched ceilings. Long corridors. Tiny shafts. We faced a design wall: to keep routes tenable, we needed twice the extraction that the building could carry. At that point, I've failed as an engineer -...
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