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Undergraduate Course: Principles of the Fire Laboratory 5 (CIVE11054)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe course will introduce students to the measurement techniques used in fire science. Students will learn about the physical principles underpinning commonly used diagnostics. They will learn how to write bespoke programmes to communicate with instruments and make measurements. They will learn about best practice on the structuring, storage and preservation of data and in the limit of applicability of data types. They will perform basic analysis on exemplar data.
Course description The course will focus on the learning the principles required to undertake successful work in a fire laboratory. Topics will be:

Fundamentals of data collection - reliability and accuracy, archiving, structuring and preservation.
Interfacing with instruments - communication, calibration and conversion.
Measuring temperature - principles of thermocouples.
Measuring heat flux - principles of heat flux gauges.
Measuring gaseous combustion products - GC-MS, spectroscopic techniques, oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
Measuring fire-induced flows - Differential pressure, hot wire, laser doppler.
Calculating fire size - calorimetry.
Video analysis techniques - digital image correlation, flame analysis.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Explain the operational principles of commonly used fire science measurement techniques
  2. Programme data logging equipment to measure, record and store data
  3. Analyse raw readings to quantify and present measurements of fire phenomena
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsMeasurement Techniques,Data Recording,Data Structuring,Data Processing
Contacts
Course organiserDr Rory Hadden
Tel: (0131 6)50 5944
Email: R.Hadden@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Ruben Gutierrez Martin
Tel: (0131 6)50 5690
Email: Ruben.Gutierrez@ed.ac.uk
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