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Professor Luke Bisby is the Arup Chair of Fire and Structures, and RAEng Research Chair, within the BRE Centre For Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering at University College London and Adjunct Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Queen’s University, Canada.
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Bisby has extensive experience in experimental methods for structural fire
safety engineering. He is interested various aspects of structural fire
engineering, with particular emphasis on reinforced concrete buildings and
tunnels, uses of fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) in civil engineering
applications, unbonded post-tensioned concrete structures, and the effects of
fire and thermal cycling on novel structures and materials. Current research
includes: holistic engineering of structures to resist and survive fires,
rehabilitation and/or upgrading of reinforced concrete structures using FRP,
the use of FRPs in new construction applications, and test methods and
numerical modelling to simulate the fire behaviour of structures and
materials.
Prof Bisby is also interested in socio-technical aspects of fire safety engineering expertise and regulation, as well as probabilistic methods to quantify the fire safety of the built environment.
