Dave Rush

2023

Numerical study on the effect of atmospheric wind on the fire severity in informal settlements with different dwellings’ wall thermal characteristics

Lemmertz, C. K., Beshir, M., Rush, D. & Roman Centeno, F., 9 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Fire Technology.

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2022

A comprehensive investigation of the impacts of discovery time and fire brigade response time on life safety and property protection in England

Manes, M. & Rush, D., 6 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Indoor and Built Environment.

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An Engineering CFD Model for Fire Spread on Wood Cribs for Travelling Fires  

Dai, X., Gamba, A., Liu, C., Anderson, J., Charlier, M., Rush, D. & Welch, S., Nov 2022, In: Advances in Engineering Software. 173, 26 p., 103213.

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Cyclic behaviour of as-built and strengthened existing reinforced concrete columns previously damaged by fire

Melo, J., Triantafyllidis, Z., Rush, D., Bisby, L. A., Rossetto, T., Arede, A., Varum, H. & Ioannou, I., 1 Sep 2022, In: Engineering Structures. 266, 114584.

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Simplified Model for Pre-Code RC Column exposed to Fire Followed by Earthquake

Ioannou, I., Rossetto, T., Rush, D. & Melo, J., 28 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 8980.

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Semi-empirical correlations for predicting hot gas layer temperature in pre-flashover compartment fires considering fire source location

Lemmertz, C. K., Helfenstein, R. P., Beshir, M., Rush, D., Jahn Von Arnswaldt, W. & Roman Centeno, F., May 2022, In: Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. 44, 5, 25 p., 195.

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Resilience, Fire and the UK Codes and Standards. Where are they and where could they go?

Manes, M., Lange, D. & Rush, D., 21 Feb 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Indoor and Built Environment.

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The influence of wind and the spatial layout of dwellings on fire spread in informal settlements in Cape Town

Gibson, L., Cicione, A., Stevens, S. & Rush, D., Jan 2022, In: Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 91, 24 p., 101734.

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2021

FDS simulations and modelling efforts of travelling fires in a large elongated compartment

Anderson, J., Sjoström, J., Temple, A., Charlier, M., Dai, X., Welch, S. & Rush, D., Oct 2021, In: Fire and Materials. 45, 6, p. 699-707 8 p.

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Laboratory experiment of fire spread between two informal settlement dwellings

Wang, Y., Beshir, M., Hadden, R., Cicione, A., Krajcovic, M., Gibson, L. & Rush, D., 5 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 171, 107195.

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An experimental and numerical study on the effects of leakages and ventilation conditions on informal settlement fire dynamics

Cicione, A., Walls, R., Stevens, S., Sander, Z., Flores, N., Narayanan, V. & Rush, D., 7 Jun 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Technology. 34 p.

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Editorial. Risk-Based, Pro-Poor Urban Design and Planning for Tomorrow’s Cities

Galasso, C., Mccloskey, J., Pelling, M., Hope, M., Bean, C., Cremen, G., Guragain, R., Hancilar, U., Menoscal, J., Mwang’a, K., Phillips, J., Rush, D. & Sinclair, H., 1 May 2021, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 58, 102158.

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Structural response of corrugated plates under blast loading: The influence of the pressure-time history

Caçoilo, A., Mourão, R., Teixeira-Dias, F., Lecompte, D. & Rush, D., Apr 2021, In: Structures. 30, p. 531-545

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Experimental and Numerical Study for the Effect of Horizontal Openings on the External Plume and Potential Fire Spread in Informal Settlements

Beshir, M., Omar, K., Centeno, F. R., Stevens, S., Gibson, L. & Rush, D., 8 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Sciences. 11, 5, 2380.

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Semi-empirical model for estimating the Heat Release Rate required for flashover in compartments with thermally-thin boundaries and ultra-fast fires

Beshir, M., Wang, Y., Centeno, F., Hadden, R., Welch, S. & Rush, D., Mar 2021, In: Fire Safety Journal. 120, 103124.

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Modelling the effects of boundary walls on the fire dynamics of informal settlement dwellings

Beshir, M., Mohamed, M., Welch, S. & Rush, D., 26 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Technology. 33 p.

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2020

Proximal Design in South African Informal Settlements: Users as Designers and the Construction of the Built Environment and its Fire Risks

Spinardi, G., Cooper Knock, S. J. & Rush, D., 3 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. 3, 1, p. 528-550

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Tisova Fire Test – fire behaviours and lessons learnt

Rush, D., Dai, X. & Lange, D., 28 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Safety Journal. 23 p., 103261.

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Towards the development of a probabilistic approach to informal settlement fire spread using ignition modelling and spatial metrics

Cicione, A., Gibson, L., Wade, C., Spearpoint, M., Walls, R. & Rush, D., 15 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire. 3, 4, 26 p., 67.

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Tactics, Objectives, and Choices: Building a Fire Risk Index

Koutsomarkos, V., Rush, D., Jomaas, G. & Law, A., 13 Nov 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Safety Journal. 103241.

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Conceptualising a GIS-based risk quantification framework for fire spread in informal settlements: A Cape Town case study

Stevens, S., Gibson, L. & Rush, D., Nov 2020, In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 50, 101736.

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Influence of wind on the onset of flashover within small-scale compartments with thermally-thin and thermally-thick boundaries

Roman Centeno, F., Beshir, M. & Rush, D., 31 Oct 2020, In: Fire Safety Journal. 117, 12 p., 103211.

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Fire risk reduction on the margins of an urbanizing world

Rush, D., Bankoff, G., Cooper Knock, S. J., Gibson, L., Hirst, L., Jordan, S., Spinardi, G., Twigg, J. & Walls, R., 18 Sep 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Disaster Prevention and Management. 15 p.

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The effect of separation distance between informal dwellings on fire spread rates based on experimental data and analytical equations

Cicione, A., Walls, R., Sander, Z., Flores, N., Narayanan, V., Stevens, S. & Rush, D., 30 Jul 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Technology.

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A preliminary investigation to develop a semi-probabilistic model of informal settlement fire spread using B-RISK

Cicione, A., Wade, C., Spearpoint, M., Gibson, L., Walls, R. & Rush, D., 22 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Safety Journal. 103115.

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Assessing fire frequency and structural fire behaviour of England statistics according to BS PD 7974-7

Manes, M. & Rush, D., 7 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Safety Journal. 103030.

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Spatial metrics from LiDAR roof mapping for fire spread risk assessment of informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa.

Gibson, L., Adeleke, A., Hadden, R. & Rush, D., 7 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Safety Journal. 16 p., 103053.

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A full-scale experimental study on single dwelling burning behavior of informal settlement

Wang, Y., Beshir, M., Cicione, A., Hadden, R., Krajcovic, M. & Rush, D., 3 May 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Safety Journal. 103076.

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Novel Coronavirus in Cape Town Informal Settlements: Feasibility of using informal dwelling outlines to identify high risk areas for COVID-19 transmission from social distancing perspective.

Gibson, L. & Rush, D., 6 Apr 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JMIR Public HEalth and Surveillance. 6, 2

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20 Dwelling Large-Scale Experiment of Fire Spread in Informal Settlements

de Koker, N., Walls, R., Cicione, A., Sander, Z., Löffel, S., Claasen, J. J., Fourie, S. J., Croukamp, L. & Rush, D., 11 Jan 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Fire Technology.

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