JapaneseSpecial Issue
Feb 15 2014
Defense of Master’s Thesis in FY2013 was held on Saturday 15th Feb. 2014.
The 3rd defense of maste's thesis in Graduate School of Global Fire Science and Technology, Tokyo Univerisity of Science in FY2013 was held in Morito Memorial Hall on Saturday 15th Feb., 2014. All 18 students presented their research achievements of master's thesis for two years. And, Mr. Kazutaka..
May 28 2013
Analysis of the Net Fire News on Fire GCOE -Fires that ten or more people died-
Miu Kumano, Graduate School of Global Fire Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
1. Number of fires
From May 11, 2009 during February 3, 2013, there are 2,369 fire news in the Net News on Fire GCOE. Among them, there are 58 fires that ten or more people died. Figure 1 shows a number of the 58 fires by nation.
Figure 1: Number of Fires by nation
In the fire...
Mar 28 2013
“Wooshin Golden suites”in Busan
written by Young-sun Kim, Masayuki Mizuno and Yoshifumi Ohmiya (Center for Fire Science & Technology, Research Institute for Science & Technology,Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
INTRODUCTION
With rapid advance of construction technology, buildings have become much larger and higher. East Asian cities also have a forest of superhigh-rise buildings backed by their economic development. With many buildings, cities changed their skylines and superhigh-rise buildings with chara...
Mar 08 2013
Club”Santika”in Bangkok
written by Kyoichi Kobayashi (Center for Fire Science & Technology, Research Institute for Science & Technology,Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Before dawn on January 1, 2009, a fire broke out and killed 66 people at Club “Santika” in Bangkok, Thailand.
The number of deaths in the fire was much larger than any fire accidents occurred in Asia in recent years. Tokyo University of Science of Japan under the Global COE Program (GCOE) of “Cente...
