Averting Disaster: New Ways to Assess Bushfire Risk and Building Integrity

该项目旨在开发一种评估森林火灾风险和建筑完整性的新方法，使用基于无人机的先进技术和基于计算流体动力学的传热模型，用于位于森林火灾易发地区的建筑物。这种耦合方法将能够评估森林大火对建筑物的影响，并提供森林大火前的条件/风险评估，以及特定地点的经济有效的补救措施，以减少或消除森林大火的损害，并减轻森林大火季节前的风险。新方法将应用于三个选定的建筑物，通过进一步的改进和验证可以实现。这个项目将展示选定的建筑及其组成部分如何使森林火灾安全。

This project aims to develop a new method of assessing bushfire risk and building integrity using drone-based advanced technologies and computational fluid dynamics based heat transfer modelling for buildings located in bushfire prone areas. This coupled approach will enable the evaluation of bushfire effects on buildings and provide pre-bushfire condition/risk assessments, and site-specific cost-effective remedial actions to reduce or eliminate bushfire damage and mitigate the risks pre-bushfire season. The new method will be applied to three selected buildings through which further enhancements and validations can be achieved. This project will showcase how the selected buildings and their components can be made bushfire safe.