Fire Technology - Special Issue: State-of-the-Art Fire Research in China and 30th Anniversary of SKLFS
Guest Editors
Prof. Naian Liu, University of Science and Technology of China
Prof. Xinyan Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Prof. Kaiyuan Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Summary and scope
China, together with the fast-growing economy, has promoted the science and engineering of fire safety for decades by contributing more than 30% of quality papers to the global fire safety academic society. The advancement in fire safety science and engineering has witnessed a reduction of the annual death toll caused by fire disasters from over 5,000 in the 1970s to around 1,000 now. The growing impact of the fire safety research community from China is highlighted by the establishment and development of the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) since 1991. SKLFS, as the world’s largest fire research center, contributes more than 350 papers to international journals annually and has educated more than 1,000 graduates who continue to improve global fire safety in universities, institutions, government sectors, and enterprises.
This Special Issue is devoted to state-of-the-art fire research in China and saluting the 30th anniversary of SKLFS.
The following topics are of special interest:
• Fire hazards to humans and environments
• Fire safety science and engineering problems relevant in industrial, operational, cultural, and environmental applications
• Fire modeling, testing, detection, suppression, human behavior, wildfires, structures, and risk analysis
• Multidisciplinary research to improve fire safety and protection.
Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10694/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site and select article type “SI – State of the Art in China".
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.