Tibor Z. Harmathy
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Dr. Tibor Z. Harmathy was a pioneer and one of the founding fathers of contemporary fire safety engineering. In 1959, he joined the expanding Fire Research Section of the Division of Building Research (National Research Council of Canada—NRC) as a Research Officer. In his active career lasting nearly 30 years at the NRC, Tibor Harmathy authored well over 100 technical fire science related publications, several books, and numerous patents as well as editing many special publications, manuscript articles and conference proceedings. Tibor was an active reviewer, contributor and editorial board member to our journal, Fire Technology. His contributions to the journal in its first year of publication include his 1965 classic, Ten Rules of Fire Endurance Rating [1], which is still used today by code officials for subjective evaluation of equivalency and performance designs. Over the next several decades Tibor had contributed well over a dozen articles to the journal Fire Technology including his well-regarded two part paper on, A New Look at Compartment Fires in 1972 [2, 3]. His last contribution Obituary
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1. Harmathy TZ (1965) Ten rules of fire endurance rating. Fire Technol 1(2):93–102. doi: 10.1007/BF02588479 .10.1007/BF02588479 ↗
2. Harmathy TZ (1972) A new look at compartment fires part 1. Fire Technol 8(3):196–217. doi: 10.1007/BF02590544 .10.1007/BF02590544 ↗
3. Harmathy TZ (1972) A new look at compartment fires part 2. Fire Technol 8(4):326–351. doi: 10.1007/BF02590537 .10.1007/BF02590537 ↗
4. Harmathy TZ (1998) Simplified model of smoke dispersion in buildings by stack effect. Fire Technol 34(1):6–17. doi: 10.1023/A:1015352714123 .10.1023/A:1015352714123 ↗
5. Smith EE, Harmathy TZ (eds) (1979) Design of buildings for fire safety. American Society for Testing and Materials, STP 685, Philadelphia.
6. Castino G, Harmathy TZ (eds) (1982) Fire risk assessment. America Society for Testing and Materials, STP 762, Philadelphia.
7. Harmathy TZ (ed) (1985) Fire safety science and engineering. America Society for Testing and Materials, STP 882,Philadelphia.
8. Harmathy TZ (1966) Simultaner Feuchtigkeits- und Wärmetransport in porigen Systemen mit besonderem Hinweis auf Trocknung (in German). PhD thesis. Vienna University of Technology, 132pp.
9. Harmathy TZ (1969) Simultaneous moisture and heat transfer in porous systems with particular reference to drying. I&EC Fundam 8(1):92–103. doi: 10.1021/i160029a016 .10.1021/i160029a016 ↗
10. Harmathy TZ, Oleszkiewicz I (1987) Fire drainage system. Fire Technol 23(1): 26–43. doi: 10.1007/BF01038364 .10.1007/BF01038364 ↗
11. Shorter G, Harmathy TZ (1983) Fire Research at the National Research Council of Canada: 1950 to 1979. Fire research at DBR/NRCC: proceedings of a symposium held in September 1981 to mark the opening of the DBR Fire Research Field Station. Ottawa, Canada, 119 pp.
12. Harmathy TZ (1993) Fire safety design & concrete. Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow.