The increasing frequency of large, high-severity fires threatens the survival of old-growth specialist fauna in fire-prone forests. Within topographically diverse montane forests, areas that experience less severe or fewer fires compared with those prevailing in the landscape may present unique resource opportunities enabling old-growth specialist fauna to survive. Statistical landscape models ...

Any material that can be used in the construction of a building is called material. Concrete, reinforced concrete, steel, aluminum, wood, tile, plaster, etc., known as materials. Fire chemical event occurs result combination matter with heat and oxygen. protection study practice reducing undesirable effects destructive fires. It includes behavior, suppression investigation fire. In this study, ...

There are more than half million tons of serpentine waste produced per year during mining operation in Taiwan. This study is to develop a process to manufacture fire-resistant geopolymer based on serpentine waste. The experiment results show that the waste serpentine-based geopolymer have very good physical/mechanical characteristics. For fire resistance tests, a 10 mm thick geopolymer panel wa...

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora (Ea), is a destructive disease of Malus (apple), Pyrus (pear) and some woody ornamentals in the rose family (Rosaceae). The goal of this project is to use a functional genomics approach to develop tools to breed fire blight resistant apples. Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) and cDNA-AFLP analysis were used to identify 650 expressed sequence ta...

This thesis describes a theoretical, numerical and experimental heat transfer study of components of construction exposed to fire. Within the computational aspects of the work, one and two-dimensional finite difference and finite element methods have been developed to determine the transient temperature distributions in the cross-section of elements of construction subject to furnace fire tests...

In this article it is described the composition properties of new synthesis on basis collagen based textile materials, fire-technical classifications recommended fireproof clothes and results experimental tests.

Cultural heritages and historical buildings are vulnerable against severe threats from fire. Since the 1970s, ten fire-spread events involving historic buildings have occurred in Taiwan, affecting a total of 132 nearby buildings. Developed under the influence of traditional Taiwanese culture, historic buildings in Taiwan are often built using non-fire resistant brick-wood structure and located ...

Housing construction consumes more materials than any other economic activity, with a total of 40.6 Gt/year. Boards are placed between to serve as non-load-bearing partitions. Studies have been performed find alternatives conventional using recycled fibers, agro-industrial waste, and protein binders raw materials. Here, fire-resistant cellulose boards low density adequate flexural strength were...