Dr Yaping He

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants/Current Projects
• Publications
• Contact

Biography

Dr He obtained his first engineering degree from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, and his PhD from the University of Queensland. He served in a number of institutions and industry before he joined University of Western Sydney in 2004 and is currently heading the School's postgraduate programs including Fire Safety Engineering, Building Surveying and Design for Bushfire Prone Areas. Dr He has vast experience in fire safety engineering research, education as well as consulting. He was a group leader in the Australian Fire Code Reform Centre project, responsible for model development and validation. He participated in the development of the Australian Fire Safety Engineering Guidelines (2nd Ed) and the International Fire Engineering Guidelines.
Dr He is a member of Editorial Board of two international journals, a committee member of the International Association of Fire Safety Science, and the Vice President of Asia-Oceania Association of Fire Science and Technology.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

PH703A Fire Engineering 2
200327 Built Environment Project
200328 Built Environment Research Project

Dr He's areas of research interest include building elements and building occupants' response to fires, risk assessment methodology, safety engineering design, fire dynamics & modelling and stochastic modelling.

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Grants/Current Projects

Cable Bridge Protection (RTA, 2002)
Ignition of landscaping materials (RTA, 2005)

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Publications

Yeo, S. K and He, Y., 2008, "Commuter characteristics in mass rapid transit stations in Singapore", to appear in Fire Safety Journal.

He, Y. and Nelson, D., 2008, "A Comparative Study of Effectiveness of Smoke Alarms in Two Types of Buildings", to appear in Journal of Fire Sciences.

Li, Z., He, Y., Zhang, H. and Wang, J., 2008, "Combustion Characteristics of n-Heptane and Wood Crib Fires at Different Altitudes", accepted by the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, 2-8, August 2008, McGill University, Canada.

He, Y., Jamieson, C., Jeary, A. and Wang, J., 2008, "Effect of Computation Domain on Simulation of Small Compartment Fires", accepted by the 9th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, International Association of Fire Safety Science, 21-26 September, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Sharma, T. S., He, Y. and Mahendran, M., 2008, "Lifts for Emergency Evacuation in Apartment Buildings", accepted by the 9th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, International Association of Fire Safety Science, 21-26 September, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Wakefield, T., He, Y., Liu, Y. and Dowling, V., 2007, "Performance of Solid Timber External Walls under Simulated Bushfire Attack", Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, 22- 24 September, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China (in press).

Wu, Z., Yang, M., Wang, J., and He, Y., 2006, "Selection of Computational Domain in Numerical Simulation of Building Fires", Fire Safety Science and Technology, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp.232-240.

Wang, J., Wu, Z., Xiao, X. and He, Y., 2005, "Mesh Independence in Numerical Simulation of Building Fires", Fire Safety Science and Technology, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp.274-278.

Wang, J., Wu, Z., Xiao, X. and He, Y., 2005, "Determination of Fire Scenario in Performance-Based Fire Safety Design", Fire Safety Science and Technology, Vol.24, No.1, pp38-43.

Vistnes, J., Grubits, S. J. and He, Y., 2005, "A Stochastic Approach to Occupant Pre-Movement in Fires", Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Beijing, China, 18-23 September, International Association of Fire Safety Science, Gottuk, G. T. and Lattimer B. Y., Editors, pp.531-542.

For more information, contact Yaping.

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