Temperature Calculation in Fire Safety Engineering

Ulf Wickström is a professor at the Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden. He was the director of the fire research laboratory of SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden between 1986 and 2010. Professor Wickström has a PhD in fire technology from the Lund University of Technology and a master of science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has for several years been active in international fire safety standardization where he has introduced many concepts based on his research such as the plate thermometer for measuring temperature and radiation, parametric fire curves of compartment fires, and shadow effects for calculating steel temperatures. He is also the originator of the notation adiabatic surface temperature which is now being used increasingly by modellers to express fire exposure. He developed the well-known computer code TASEF for calculating temperature in fire exposed materials, composites and structures.

Introduction
Steady State Conduction in One Dimension
Unsteady-state or Transient Conduction
Boundary Conditions in Fire Protection Engineering
Heat Transfer by Radiation
Heat Transfer by Convection
Numerical Methods
Thermal Ignition Theory
Measurements of Temperature and Heat Flux
Post-flashover Compartment Fires: One-Zone Models
Pre-flashover Compartment Fires: Two-Zone Models
Fire Exposure of Structures According to Standards
Temperature of Steel Structures
Temperatures of Concrete Structures
Temperature of Timber Structures.

"The book is quite effective in content, style, and format, which is suitable for institutions that offer programs in fire engineering. ... The strength of the book lies in the flow of concepts and the culmination with review questions for each chapter, which provide quintessential pointers to key concepts and mastery of the material. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals." (R. N. Laoulache, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017)