Literature List IMFSE September 2018

Important notice: This list is indicative for what is used as teaching material in the IMFSE educational
programme. The list is not exhaustive. Not all topics in all references mentioned are taught either.

- Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer:

o M.J. Moran and H.N. Shapiro, ‘Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics’
o J.R. Welty, C.E. Wicks, R.E. Wilson, G.L. Rorrer, ‘Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and
Mass transfer’
o Bergman, T. L , Lavine, A. S., Incropera, F. P. and Dewitt, D. P., ‘Fundamentals of Heat
and Mass Transfer’
o K.K. Kuo, ‘Principles of Combustion’, John Wiley and Sons
- Fire Dynamics:
o D. Drysdale, 'An Introduction to Fire Dynamics', Wiley & Sons, 2011
o B. Merci and T. Beji, ‘Fluid mechanics aspects of fire and smoke dynamics in enclosures’,
CRC Press, 2016
o J. Quintere, ‘Fundamentals of Fire Phenomena’
o SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering
o B. Karlsson and J.G. Quintiere, 'Enclosure Fire Dynamics', CRC Press, 2000
- Performance-based design
o "Performance-Based Fire Safety Design" by Hurley and Rosenbaum (2015, CRC Press)
nd
o SFPE Guide for fire performance based design – 2 edition
- Simulations of fires in enclosures:
o H.K. Versteeg and W. Malalasekera, “An Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics –
The Finite Volume Method” (2nd Ed.), Harlow: Pearson Education Limited (2007)
- Human Behaviour in Fire:
o D. Canter (Ed.), “Fire and Human Behaviour”, John Wiley and Sons (1980)
- Structural Engineering:
o "Mechanics of Materials", James M. Gere (sixth edition), Ed. Bill Stenquist, 2004 (ISBN 0-
534-41793-0)
o “Structural Design for Fire Safety”, A. Buchanan, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2001 (ISBN:
0471 88993 8)
- Risk assessment:
o Kolluru, R: Risk Assessment and Management Handbook. McGraw-Hill Inc. New York
1996
o Morgan and Henrion: Uncertainty. Cambridge University Press 1990
o BS 7974. Application of fire safety engineering principles to the design of buildings -
Code of practice. BSI, London 2001
o The SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Ch 5, NFPA, Quincy, 2008
o Rasbash, D J, Ramachandran, G, Kandola, B, Watts J M and Law, M: Evaluation of fire
safety. Wiley 2004
 o SFPE Engineering guide on fire risk assessment
- Fire Investigation
o DeHaan, J. D., Icove, D. J., ‘Kirk’s Fire Investigation’, 2012
o National Fire Protection Association, NFPA 921