Cooking or stove -originated fires are a significant group of residential fires. These fires start from a stove or a cooktop if it is left on alone, food is left on a hot pan for a long time or if … Continue reading →

Aalto University is one of the organizers of the 2017 Nordic Fire and Safety Days. There are still few days to submit your abstract. Last year, it was great event. Posted by Simo Hostikka

Our latest article, titled ‘Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Pressure Effects in Apartment Fires‘ is now available at Fire Technology -journal. It is OpenAccess. In this paper we summarize the experimental findings and numerical simulation validation. The main conclusion of … Continue reading →

We are looking for a MSc student to this paid MSc thesis project. Background: Passive fire protection systems (e.g. stone wool) are used in building and other industries to protect structures and devices from heat and hazardous conditions, such as … Continue reading →

It was a pleasure to welcome the new students to the Building Technology Master’s programme. Simo (program director) gave the introductory lecture. After that the students had orientation orienteering around the department, during which Kai told them about FSE, and … Continue reading →

We are looking for a new enthusiastic member to our team to develop the computational methods for thermal radiation in fires. It was year 2000 when I was sent from VTT to work as a guest researcher at NIST/BFRL. Within … Continue reading →

Simo, Rahul, and Kai-Yuan Li attended the NFSD 2016 conference last week in Copenhagen. Simo and Rahul gave presentations on the PAHAHUPA project (pressure maanagement), and Kai about char cracking experiments and modelling. The conference was very well organized – … Continue reading →

Alltogether 14 students passed the Fire simulation -course this spring. The course was about fire and evacuation simulations, focusing on the simulation technology. Congratulations to all our active students! In the final project of the course, the students had to … Continue reading →

We have published open calls for following positions: Doctoral Candidate in Simulation of Fire Barriers, deadline for the applications March 22nd, 2016: aalto.fi/fi: http://www.aalto.fi/fi/about/careers/jobs/view/685/ aalto.fi/en: http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/685/ Master thesis on the fire safety of the energy-efficient buildings (Aalto University students), deadline … Continue reading →

Aalto! Fire Safety Engineering team is coming to life. Our current members are Simo Hostikka (Associate Professor), Kaiyuan Li (Research Fellow), Rahul Kallada Janardhan (Doctoral student), and Pekka Huhtala (Research Trainee). We are part of the Aalto University’s Department of … Continue reading →