Dr Martin Gillie

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Dr Martin Gillie
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Background

• PhD, 2000 University of Edinburgh - Numerical
  modelling of structures in fire
• Research Fellow 20001-2002
• Industry 2002-2003
• Lecturer
• Nottingham 2003-2005
• Edinburgh 2005-

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The Fire Safety Engineering Group

• Dr. Carvel (PredFireNano)
• Dr. Switzer (STAR)
• Prof. Rivera (FireParadox)

• Prof. Dougal Drysdale (Emeritus)
• Prof Jose L. Torero (Fire dynamics)
• Dr Gillie (Structures in fire)
• Dr Welch (Fire dynamics)
• Dr Asif Usmani (Structures in fire)
• Dr Rein (Fire dynamics, solid combustion)
• Dr Stratford
• Dr Gerhard

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Current Interests

• Design against fire
• Understand structural behaviour in fire
• Design against it
• Move away from simple fire protection
• Full-scale fire tests at Dalmarnock
• Large-scale finite element models
• Cooling of structures
• Locked in stresses
• Travelling fire (vertically and horizontally)
• Rehabilitation of structures
• FireGrid
• Integrated response to emergencies
• Real-time computing
• sensing

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Structural Cooling
Stress
Tension during cooling
Mechanical strain or temperature
Compression during heating
Uniform heating then cooling
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Structures Cooling
Axial restraint
Composite beam
Instrumented rebar
Concrete
Steel
Hollow rebar
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Sensors
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General Overview
23-Storey Tower