Fire danger rating systems are used to assess the potential for bushfire occurrence, fire spread and difficulty of fire suppression. Typically, fire danger rating systems combine meteorological information with estimates of the moisture content of the fuel to produce a fire danger index. Fire danger indices are used to declare fire bans and to schedule prescribed burns, among other applications...

Interest in high field non-superconducting tokamaks was strong after the US left the ITER project at the end of 1999. This class of tokamaks, including Alcator C-Mod, IGNITOR, and FIRE, has many challenging and interesting structural characteristics. Structural behavior of these tokamaks is discussed along with the special structural features employed to sustain the huge loads resulting from th...

Stochastic dynamics involved in ecological count data require distribution fitting procedures to model and make informed judgments. The study provides empirical research, focused on the provision of an early warning system and a spatial graph that can detect societal fire risks. It offers an opportunity for communities, organizations, risk managers, actuaries and governments to be aware of, and...

A long history of fire suppression in the western United States has significantly changed forest structure and ecological function, leading to increasingly uncharacteristic fires in terms of size and severity. Prior analyses of fire severity in California forests showed that time since last fire and fire weather conditions predicted fire severity very well, while a larger regional analysis show...

polyurethane foams are extensively used in different applications such as furnitures and sandwich structures due to better mechanical properties, higher acoustic and damping behavior, higher resistance to hydrocarbon, and aging.with respect to flammability of polyurethane materials and safety precaution in living and working environments there is a vital need to study and investigate published ...

In areas where fire regimes and forest structure have been dramatically altered, there is increasing concern that contemporary fires have the potential to set forests on a positive feedback trajectory with successive reburns, one in which extensive stand-replacing fire could promote more stand-replacing fire. Our study utilized an extensive set of field plots established following four fires th...