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    • Recerca en incendis forestals: cremes experimentals a Austràlia 

      Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Pérez, Yolanda (2011-10)
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    • Recerca en incendis forestals: cremes experimentals a Austràlia i Nova Zelanda 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pérez Ramírez, Yolanda (Societat Catalana de Tecnologia, 2008-07-10)
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      Durant els mesos de febrer i març d’aquest any, investigadors australians, nouzelandesos i catalans han dut a terme una campanya de cremes experimentals de recerca a l’estat del sud d’Austràlia i a la regió de Canterbury ...

    • Revisiting the dispersion safety factor (DSF) for vapor clouds of liquefied flammable gases (LNG and propane) 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Subirana Puigcasas, Joan; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Miralles Schleder, Adriana; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2020-08-01)
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      The concept of the Dispersion Safety Factor (DSF) was introduced by Vílchez et al., 2013, Vílchez et al., 2014 and has been revisited in this work. The DSF is defined as the ratio between the flammable region of the vapor ...

    • Risk analysis active learning through the investigation of real cases 

      Darbra Roman, Rosa Maria; Casal Fàbrega, Joaquim; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Vílchez Sánchez, Juan Antonio; Arnaldos Viger, Josep; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2012)
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      Risk analysis is a topic of high relevance in chemical engineering. Courses on this topic are being introduced increasingly into the university curricula. The investigation of real cases is an interesting opportunity to ...

    • Risk analysis of LPG tanks at the wildland-urban interface: are regulated safety distances large enough? 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Caballero, David; Martín, Jesús; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2018)
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    • Safety distances for storage tanks to prevent fire damage in Wildland-Industrial Interface 

      Scarponi, Giordano Emrys; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2021-03)
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      Wildfire occurrence frequency is increasing worldwide, generating more and more concern, especially in Wildland-Urban interfaces (WUI) and Wildland-Industrial Interfaces (WII) areas. Wildfires approaching WII can cause ...

    • Short term forecasting of large scale wind-driven wildfires using thermal imaging and inverse modelling techniques 

      Rios Rubiras, Oriol; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014-10-31)
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      A key factor in decision-making process during a wildfire incident is counting on the forecast of how the fire is likely to behave in different fuels, weather conditions and terrain. Wildfire models and simulators attempt ...

    • Short-term fire front spread prediction using inverse modelling and airborne infrared images 

      Rios Rubiras, Oriol; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Valero Pérez, Mario Miguel; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2016-10-03)
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      A wildfire forecasting tool capable of estimating the fire perimeter position sufficiently in advance of the actual fire arrival will assist firefighting operations and optimise available resources. However, owing to limited ...

    • Summary of first outcomes 

      Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2011-02-07)
      Report de recerca
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      Document del projecte: Preliminary CDM-NM to reduce GHG emissions with aerial fire fighting. This document summarizes the work done by CERTEC between the 13th January and 7th February 2011 concerning the project “Elaboración ...

    • Summary of workshop large outdoor fires and the built environment 

      Manzello, Samuel; Blanchi, Raphaele; Gollner, Michael; Gorham, Daniel; McAllister, Sara; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Reszka, Pedro; Suzuki, Sayaka (2018-09-01)
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      Large outdoorfires present a risk to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)fires, havedestroyed communities throughout the world, and are an emerging ...

    • Technical Note TN 2.4. Fuel sampling, tree ignition and burning tests in ADAI facilities 

      Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Agueda Costafreda, Alba (2019-12-04)
      Report de recerca
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      In this document, the followed methodology to characterize several natural fuels (trees of Cupressus arizonica, Cupressocyparis leylandii, Prunus laurocerasus and Thuja occidentalis) is presented. Also, the ignition method ...

    • The effect of the computational grid size on the prediction of a flammable cloud dispersion 

      Schleder, Adriana; Martins, Marcelon; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2014)
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      The consequence analysis is used to define the extent and nature of effects caused by undesired events being of great help when quantifying the damage caused by such events. For the case of leaking of flammable and/or ...

    • The effect of the environment conditions on the prediction of flammable cloud dispersion 

      Schleder, Adriana; Martins, Marcelo; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2014)
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      In order to quantify the damage caused by undesired events involving leakages of flammable materials, specific models are used to analyze the spills or jets of gas and liquid, gas dispersion, explosions and fires. The ...

    • Thermal infrared video stabilization for aerial monitoring of active wildfires 

      Verstockt, Steven; Jiménez González, Daniel; Rios Rubiras, Oriol; Queen, Lloyd; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      Measuring wildland fire behaviour is essential forfire science and fire management. Aerial thermal infrared (TIR)imaging provides outstanding opportunities to acquire suchinformation remotely. Variables ...

    • Thermal radiation model for dynamic fireballs with shadowing 

      Bonilla Martinez, Juan M.; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Muñoz, Miguel; Vílchez Sánchez, Juan Antonio; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2019-08-01)
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      This paper presents a new methodology for determining the thermal radiation of dynamic fireballs considering the presence of obstructions (i.e. safety barrier, topographic elevation). The specific type of obstruction ...

    • Toward the new generation of surgical meshes with 4D response: soft, dynamic and adaptable [Dataset] 

      Lanzalaco, Sonia; Turón Dols, Pau; Weis, Christine; Mata, Christian; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Alemán Llansó, Carlos; Armelín Diggroc, Elaine Aparecida (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020)
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      The present dataset reports the scientific results corresponding to a scientific study where a bidimensional (2D) polypropylene flexible mesh material has been converted into a fourth dimension (4D) dynamic system. The ...

    • Toward the new generation of surgical meshes with 4D response: soft, dynamic, and adaptable 

      Lanzalaco, Sonia; Turon, Pau; Weis, Christine; Mata Miquel, Cristian; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Alemán Llansó, Carlos; Armelín Diggroc, Elaine Aparecida (2020-06-30)
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      Herein, a facile approach toward transforming a 2D polypropylene flexible mesh material into a 4D dynamic system is presented. The versatile platform, composed by a substrate of knitted fibers of isotactic polypropylene ...

    • Una nueva herramienta para el diseño de los tratamientos de combustible en la interfaz urbano-forestal 

      Muñoz Navarro, Juan Antonio; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2020)
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      La Interfaz Urbano-Forestal (IUF) constituye uno de los escenarios de mayor riesgo en incendios forestales. Esto se debe –entre otros importantes factores –al aumento en la complejidad de la emergencia, el incremento de ...

    • Using fuzzy logic to evaluate fire vulnerability of dwellings located at the wildland-urban interface 

      Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Vacca, Pascale; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia; Pastor Ferrer, Elsa (2022)
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      WUI fires are posing great challenges to firefighting services, which are overwhelmed by the need to not only suppress the fire, but also protect the community. The need for self-protection is therefore growing, as is the ...

    • Vulnerability analysis to wildland- urban interface fires in metropolitan areas: an integrated approach 

      Pastor Ferrer, Elsa; Caballero Valero, David; Rodríguez Giralt, Israel; Arenas Conejo, Miriam; Morán Núñez, Francisca Josefa; Canaleta Garcia, Guillem; Vacca, Pascale; Agueda Costafreda, Alba; Planas Cuchi, Eulàlia (2022)
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      Wildfires pose a growing threat to populated areas around the world and especially in the Mediterranean Basin. Numerous Mediterranean cities have typically developed neighbourhoods that expand into forest land in which ...