Fire Engineering Masters

gmannix1000

Hi all,

Doing a thesis in some area of fire engineering? Has anyone any ideas on what to do it on, or is there research required in a particular area?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated as I am not sure where to focus my thesis?

Thanks!!

Mr Marri

Play to your strengths! !!

There are so many topics, so what area are you interested in?

If it was me I do something like a comparison between prescribed codes and engineered solutions, but it a thesis and not a book your writing!

gmannix1000

Hi, thanks for writing back.

My thesis needs to be in an area where research is needed. However my college does not have any fire testing equipment so maybe I can transfer to another college to get the testing done...

Its just trying to find a suitable area, I dont even know where to start??

Mr Marri

gmannix1000 wrote: »

Hi, thanks for writing back.

My thesis needs to be in an area where research is needed. However my college does not have any fire testing equipment so maybe I can transfer to another college to get the testing done...

Its just trying to find a suitable area, I dont even know where to start??

So what area of your course did you find interesting/enjoy?

Don't worry too much about the lab set up. you can alway take the results from an existing study and adapt them to your needs. And nothing like poking holes in somebodies else work to remind your we're all human Phd or not.

gmannix1000

we only did one module in fire engineering... I was thinking something about the materials used in a third level institution nowadays vs. 30 years ago and comparing what has changed or something like that?

but what I really have to do is find a niche where research is needed and expand on that!!! any ideas?

Mr Marri

gmannix1000 wrote: »

we only did one module in fire engineering...

Ah the what now! But it's a truely huge area, crossing many many fields, electrical, mechanical, structural, thermodynamics, chemistry, psycology, phisology etc etc you could spend the next five years studing it and you would still have to specialise.


Here's some thing that might give you some ideas

http://fire.nist.gov/fds/

On the flip side, it is never boring

civdef

If you only did one module as part of another subject as opposed to a full fire engineering course, you can't have gone too deeply into any particular area?
I'd agree with other posters, pick an area of the topic you liked.

One possible one might be research on means of escape, take a (preferably non code compliant) building, model evacuation from it, then see about doing some live tests for comparison (i.e. a fire drill, not setting fire to the place, before anyone asks!).