Dougal Drysdale
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Professor Dougal Drysdale (born in Scotland,UK) is a Professor Emeritus in Fire Safety Engineering at The University of Edinburgh and member of the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering.
Professor Drysdale is one of the leading international authorities in Fire Safety Engineering and is the author of the standard reference text in the field, "An Introduction to Fire Dynamics"[1]. He has been involved in teaching and research in the general area of fire dynamics and has published over 100 papers.
His wide range of research interests include the ignition characteristics of combustible materials and their fire growth characteristics, smoke production in fires, fire spread and fire dynamics, problems of non linear dynamics with reference to fire modelling, the application of CFD to modelling flame spread, fire suppression and extinction and the response of steel framed structures to fire exposure.
Professor Drysdale is a member of the Editorial Board for the Third Edition of the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. He was Vice-Chairman of the International Association for Fire Safety Science from 1994 - 2002, and Chairman from 2002 - 2005. He is currently the Editor of "Fire safety Journal". He is fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institution of Fire Engineers and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. He is the recipient of numerous awards that include: “Man of the Year” (1983) and Arthur B. Guise Medal (1995) by the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the Kawagoe Medal of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (2002), and the Rasbash Medal by the IFE/ECD in 2005.
He has been involved in a number of Public Inquiries, including the King's Cross Underground Station fire (London 1987), the Piper Alpha explosion and fire (North Sea, July 1988) and the fire in the Garley Building (Hong Kong, 1996). He is a member of the Independent Board of Investigation into the Buncefield Explosion (December 2005).
[edit] References and External Links
- University of Edinburgh's Fire Safety Engineering webpage
- Short lecture on Fire Safety by Prof. Drysdale
- The Buncefield Investigation Official government enquiry.
[edit] References
- ^ Drysdale, Dougal, (1998). An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, Second Edition (html). publisher = John Wiley and Sons. Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
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