Essays about: "smoke control"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words smoke control.
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1. Investigation on Enhancing Fire Threat Perception in Virtual Reality through Subject-Expectancy Effect
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This thesis examines the use of subject-expectancy effect on enhancing fire threat perception in virtual reality. The study involves a virtual fire scenario design and 33 participants who experience virtual fires of three different scales in the scenario using a head-mounted display as visual and auditory perception and adopting physical movement in real world as their way of locomotion. READ MORE
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2. Actants and Networks in 'Skagboys' – Thatcher, Crime and Mundane Artifacts as Mediators
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : While Skagboys portrays the descent into heroin addiction of young, working class Scots during the Thatcher era, shifting the analysis from a strictly human perspective to one focusing on the agency of objects opens up the novel to new readings wherein morality emerges through nonhuman actors. Welsh’s work has traditionally been hailed as Scottish working-class realism that portrays its characters unideologically, to the point that the novels, through the characters, appear without morality. READ MORE
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3. DEVELOPMENT OF RISK INFORMED METHODS FOR ESTIMATING RADIATION RELEASE FROM CABLE FIRES AT HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS FACILITIES
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : CERN operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC was built to advance the state of knowledge in particle physics by increasing the energy of colliding particles to the TeV range. READ MORE
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4. Short Range Millimeter-Wave Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för elektro- och informationsteknikAbstract : Millimeter-wave radar imaging has potential uses in applications such as material analysis and medical in-vivo scanning of tissue. This thesis is about measuring objects using a millimeter wave radar, implement radar imaging algorithms and evaluate the resulting images. READ MORE
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5. Studies on the application of gas cooling as used by firefighters
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Gas cooling is a technique used by firefighters to create a safer work environment inside a compartment fire. By spraying water into the smoke layer, the smoke layer temperature will decrease significantly. Next to the lower temperature, the flammability of the smoke layer will also decrease. READ MORE