My Fire Safety Publications

A Note on My Fire Safety Publications

Many of the author’s publications have been reproduced in full below with the kind permission of the publisher. These have been reproduced, mostly by scanning. The most recent publications appear at the top of the list in each category. They may be of interest and use to students and experienced practitioners alike.The principles and practice of fire precautions and means of escape illustrated in the publications remain valid even though some were published as long ago as the 1970’s. The reader should be aware, therefore, that regulations and codes cited may no longer be current and their currency and relevance should be checked.

It is hoped that these publications will contribute towards an understanding of fire safety engineering. The articles taken from the Architects Journal and Specification which appear in the ‘Fire protection methods’ and Fire protection problems’ categories (see below) give an introduction to the subject of buildings and fire and cover a wide range of topics not found elsewhere.

There are specialist comprehensive articles on fire behaviour of sandwich panels with practical solutions to the problems illustrated and these are taken from Fire Engineers Journal. Again the work on fire engineering of tall fire walls published in Fire Surveyor in 1987 may be useful.

Many other topics are covered such as: design fires for sandwich panels; means of escape; smoke control methods; fire severity; fire testing; new methods of fire protection for structural steelwork; performance of concrete and brickwork in fire; the Fire Precautions Act 1971 (now replaced by the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order) ; the development of the first British Standard code of practice on fire safety engineering (DD 240 which led to PD 7974); assessment of the Structural Eurocode on fire actions; upgrading the structural fire precautions of historic buildings; and resistance of tall buildings to large aircraft impact and fire, written  following the attack on the  World Trade Center.

Specialist publications cover the use of plate thermometers in fire resistance testing, severity of fire in large compartments, thermal bowing of construction elements and the novel development of an electric cooking hob which will not cause chip-pan fires.

There are several BRE Client Reports listed which contain experimental data useful for calibrating theoretical models of structural behaviour, but these are classified as confidential by BRE. In determined cases it may be possible to obtain permission to gain access to the data upon application to BRE.

For reasons of confidentiality it has not been possible to reproduce commercial contract research publications.

Click on the category of interest to access the references:

• fire safety engineering
• fire testing
• fire protection methods
• heritage fire protection
• fire protection problems
• fire severity
• means of escape
• tall fire walls
• sandwich panels
• thermal bowing
• concrete construction
• steel construction
• composite steel/concrete
• masonry
• tunnels
• bridges
• ships
• notable fires
• World Trade Centre disaster
• structural innovation
• product innovation
  

Fire safety engineering

• Cooke GME, ‘DD 240 Case Study: An Example of a DD 240 Fire Safety Engineering Approach to the Design of a Proposed 3-Level File Storage Facility in a Hospital’ Fire Safety Engineering, Vol 5, No 3, June 1998, pp 30-34 (422Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘So DD 240 has been published – what next?’ Fire Safety Engineering, Dec 1997, pp 21-22
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire safety engineering – where next ?’, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers seminar ‘ Materials and design against fire’, held on 18 March 97 (118Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire safety engineering – the UK approach’, Fire Prevention, No.288, April 1996, pp 25-28. (376Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘International Developments in Fire Safety Engineering’. ASTM STP 1163. ‘Fire Standards in the International Market Place’ Edited by Arthur F. Grand, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 5 December 1995
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire safety engineering of assembly buildings,’ Proceedings of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) international symposium ‘Places of assembly and long-span building structures’, Birmingham, 7-9 September 1994, published as IABSE Report 71 by IABSE, Switzerland, pp 231-238
• Cooke GME, Draft British Standard Code of Practice for the ‘Application of Fire Safety Engineering Principles to Fire Safety in Buildings’, (BSI Document 93/314187), British Standards Institution, Feb 1994, (written with 6 others under contract to Department of Trade and Industry)
• Cooke GME, ‘Future codes for fire safety design,’ Fire Safety Journal 23 (1994) pp 193 -198. (written with A G Deakin)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Philosophy of Fire Engineering being Developed by the British Standards Code Drafting Panel’. Part 2 of proc of CIB W14 International Symposium ‘Engineering Fire Safety in the Process of Design: Demonstrating Equivalency’, 13-16 September 1993 Published by University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, pp 145-157
• Cooke GME, ‘The Fire Safety Engineering of Steel/Concrete Composite Structures’. Presented at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers International Conference ‘Materials and Design against Fire’, October 1992 Published by Institution of Mechanical Engineers , pp 53-58, (written with B Kerridge)
• Cooke GME, ‘Practical fire engineering: Part D: Application of steel models research,’ National Structural Steel Conference 1984 ‘ New Developments in Steel Construction’, held on 11 and 12 December 1984, sponsored by The British Constructional Steelwork Association, pp 5/0/1-/7
• Cooke GME, ‘Practical fire engineering: Part A: The context.’ National Structural Steel Conference 1984 ‘ New Developments in Steel Construction’, held on 11 and 12 December 1984, sponsored by The British Constructional Steelwork Association, pp 5/A/1-/9.
• Cooke GME, ‘Meeting the fire safety design requirements.’ Life Exhibition Conference ‘Modern building design in the late 1980’s and the fire safety provisions’. 9-13 April, 1984, pp 20.
• Cooke GME, ‘Problems in the Development and Application of New Technologies for Fire Grading of Buildings’ Fire Prevention Science and Technology, No 12, July 1975, pp 4-16(1.19Mb)
  

Fire testing

• Cooke GME, ‘The Fire Precautions Act in practice: Construction.’ The Architects Journal, 25 August 1976, pp 336-362. (1.8Mb) – parts of this long and ancient article deal with fire testing methods which remain applicable in principle
• Cooke GME, ‘A review of compartment fire tests to explore the behaviour of structural steel’, Fire, static and dynamic tests of building structures, pub E&FN Spon, London, 1997, pp17 – 32 (1.1Mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Role of Full Scale Fire Testing’. Institution of Structural Engineers/City University International Seminar ‘Structural Assessment: the Role of Large and Full Scale Testing’, 1-3 July 1996, London
• Cooke GME, ‘Large compartment fire tests at Cardington and the Assessment of Eurocode 1,’ Proceedings of IABSE Colloquium, Delft, The Netherlands, (written with Y C Wang and D Moore), 1996.
• Cooke GME, ‘Use of Plate Thermometers for Standardising Fire Resistance Furnaces’ BRE Occasional Paper No 58, Building Research Establishment, March 1994, pp 140
• Cooke GME, ‘Can Harmonisation of Fire Resistance Furnaces be Achieved by Plate Thermometer Control?’ Proc of 4th International IAFSS Symposium Published by International Association for Fire Safety Science, Ottawa, 1994, pp 1195-1207
• Cooke GME, ‘Large compartment fire tests at Cardington and the Assessment of Eurocode 1,’ Proceedings of IABSE Colloquium, Delft, The Netherlands, (written with Y C Wang and D Moore), 1996
• Cooke GME, ‘Can Integrity in Fire Resistance Tests be Predicted?’ Proc of 6th Interflam ’93 conference, University of Oxford, 30 March – 1 April 1993 Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London, pp321-330 (376Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Draft of Interpretative Document ‘Safety in case of Fire’, (ID2) of the European Commission’s Construction Products Directive (As the UK Expert, and Technical Secretary to the Drafting Panel and Technical Committee No.2, made major contribution to this important document), 1992 (52Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Protection,’ chapter of Volume 1 of ‘Specification 85’, Published by The Architectural Press, 1985, pp 69. (5.5Mb) – pages 1-9 to 1-14 deal with standard fire tests which remain instructive in principle
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire test anomaly hampers steel developments’. New Civil Engineer, 11 April 1974, pp25-26

Fire protection methods

• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resisting construction,’ Chapter in Encyclopaedia of Building Technology,
  edited by H J Cowan, Published by Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1988.
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Protection’. Chapter of Volume 1 of Specification ’85 Published by The Architectural Press, 1985, PP 69
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Protection,’ chapter of Volume 1 of ‘Specification 85’, Published by The Architectural Press, 1985, pp 69. (5.5Mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Fire Precautions Act in practice: the legislation.’ The Architects Journal, 8 September 1976, pp 457-459 (written with Ann Everton, Barrister at Law). (354Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Fire Precautions Act in practice: construction.’ The Architects Journal, 25 August 1976, pp 336-362. (1.8Mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘New Methods of Fire Protection for External Steelwork’. Technical Study, Architects Journal, 28 August 1974, pp 493-516
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire protection methods for external steelwork’. Fire Prevention Science and Technology No 9, July 1974, pp 4-12
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire precautions can be built in.’ Electrical Review, Vol 198, No. 7, 20 February 1976, pp 33-36’Ferrous Metals’ section of ‘Mitchells Building Construction : Materials’. Vol 2. Commissioned by British Steel Corporation to write this architects book in conjunction with author A Everett. Published Batsford 1971.
• Cooke GME, ‘Ferrous Metals’ section of ‘Mitchells Building Construction : Materials’. Vol 2. Commissioned by British Steel Corporation to write this architects book in conjunction with author A Everett. Published Batsford 1971.
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire protection of roofs and external walls – a guide to the interpretation of the Building Regulations 1965 with particular reference to steel sheet’. Joint author of booklet originally published by the Sheet Steel Information and Development Association in 1968, and subsequently by Constrado
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resisting construction’. Chapter 39 of 4th edition of Steel Designers Manual published by Crosby Lockwood, May 1972 (Written with D Elliott, Constrado).
• Cooke GME, ‘Water filled structures’. Building with Steel, No 15, August 1973, pp 26-33.
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resisting construction,’ Chapter in Encyclopaedia of Building Technology, edited by H J Cowan, Published by Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1988
  

Heritage fire protection

• Cooke GME, ‘Upgrading the fire resistance of floors and doors in heritage buildings’, International symposium on protection of cultural heritage buildings from fire, Kyoto, Japan, April 6 – 7, 2003 (616Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Protection,’ chapter of Volume 1 of ‘Specification 85’, Published by The Architectural Press, 1985, pp 69. (5.5Mb) – parts of this long article deals with upgrading methods
• Cooke GME, ‘The Fire Precautions Act in practice: construction.’ The Architects Journal, 25 August 1976, pp 336-362.(1.8Mb) – parts of this long article deals with upgrading methods
  

Fire protection problems

• Cooke GME, ‘Composite panels or built-up systems?’ A 17 point check list for roof fire safety, Roofing, December 1998, pp 8, 9 (250Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire: The Unseen Problems’ The Architects Journal, 29 August 1979, pp 426-468 (2.44Mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Do water-filled columns offer fire protection?’ New Scientist, 28 February 1974, pp557-558.
• Cooke GME, ‘Can integrity in fire resistance tests be predicted?’, Proc of 6th Interflam ’93 conference, University of Oxford, 30 March – 1 April 1993, Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London, 1993, pp 321-330
• Cooke GME, ‘Lessons from the Broadgate Fire,’ Building Services, March 1994, pp 47,48
  

Fire severity

• Cooke GME, ‘Time Equivalent – Theory Versus Experiment’. Proc of Interflam’ 2001 International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, Edinburgh, September 2001 Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London
• Cooke GME, ‘Time equivalent – is it a good measure of compartment fire severity ?’, Fire Safety Engineering, April 1999, pp 26-31
• Cooke GME, ‘Tests to determine the behaviour of fully developed natural fires in a large compartment’, Fire Note 4, Building Research Establishment, February, 1998, pp 248. ISBN 1 86081 206 6
• Cooke GME, ‘The Severity of Fire in a Large Compartment with Restricted Ventilation’. PP 7. IMAS 94 Conference. ‘Fire Safety on Ships – Developments into the 21st century’. London, 26-27 May 1994 Proc published by the Institution of Marine Engineers (624Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Use of Plate Thermometers for Standardising Fire Resistance Furnaces’ BRE Occasional Paper No 58, Building Research Establishment, March 1994, pp 140
• Cooke GME, ‘Can Harmonisation of Fire Resistance Furnaces be Achieved by Plate Thermometer Control?’ Proc of 4th International IAFSS Symposium Published by International Association for Fire Safety Science, Ottawa, 1994, PP 1195-1207
• Cooke GME, ‘The Thermal Severity of Fire Resistance Furnaces: Getting Better Agreement Using Plate Thermometer Control?’ Proc of National Institute of Standards and Technology Annual Conference, Gaithersburg, USA, October 1993, pp 2
• Cooke GME, ‘The Severity of Fires in Large Compartments: Theory and Experiment’. Proc of National Institute of Standards and Technology Annual Conference, Gaithersburg, USA, October 1993, pp 2
• Cooke GME, ‘The thermal severity of fire resistance furnaces: getting better agreement using plate thermometer control?’, NIST Annual Conference, USA, October 1993, pp 2
• Cooke GME, ‘The severity of fires in large compartments: theory and experiment,’ NIST Annual Conference, USA, October 1993, pp 2.
  

Means of escape

• Cooke GME, Independent review of the Appeal concerning the refusal to remove a condition imposed on the Grant of a Fire Safety Certificate for the proposed Four Seasons Hotel’, Merrion Road, Dublin. Client: An Bord Pleanala (Irish Planning Appeals Board), Dublin, Irish Republic, 31 July 2000
• Cooke GME, ‘Independent review of the Appeal concerning the refusal to grant a Fire Safety Certificate for the Athy Health Centre’, Athy, Co Kildare. Client: An Bord Pleanala, Dublin, Irish Republic, 4 July 1997
• Cooke GME, ‘Assisted Means of Escape of Disabled People from Fires in Tall Buildings’. BRE Information Paper IP 16/91 Building Research Establishment, November 1991, pp 4
• Cooke GME, ‘DD 240 Case Study: An Example of a DD 240 Fire Safety Engineering Approach to the Design of a Proposed 3-Level File Storage Facility in a Hospital’ Fire Safety Engineering, Vol 5, No 3, June 1998, pp 30-34(422Kb)
  

Tall fire walls

• Cooke GME, ‘The Fire Safety Design of Tall Lightweight Steel Framed Fire Walls’. Proc of the Nordic Steel Construction Conference ’95, Malmo, Sweden, 19-21 June 1995, Volume 2, pp 677-683
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Engineering of Tall Fire Separating Walls’ Fire Surveyor, Parts 1 & 2, June & August 1987, pp 13-29 and PP 19-29 respectively (2.42Mb)
• Cooke GME, Building your fire wall (a specification for a high performance sandwich panel fire wall), Fire Safety Engineering, November, 2007, London, pp 17-20
• Cooke GME, ‘Thermal bowing in fire and how it affects building design’, BRE Information Paper, IP 21/88, Dec 1988 (written with Mrs Penny Morgan )
• Cooke GME, ‘The magnitude of thermal bowing of concrete slabs exposed to fire,’ International Conference ‘ Fire Research and Engineering’ sponsored by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST, and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Orlando, USA, 10-15 September 1995..
  

Sandwich panels

• Cooke GME, ‘Metal faced sandwich panels with plastic foam cores – a challenge to fire
  safety’, Fire Safety Engineering, January/February ?, 2009, London
• Cooke GME, ‘Sandwich panel surprises’, a PowerPoint illustrated talk given to the Fire Insurance Surveyors Society on 8 December 2008, London (2.17MB)
• Cooke GME, ‘Resisting collapse of steel-faced Sandwich Panel Walls and Ceilings exposed to Fire’, Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Volume 18, Issue 4, Nov 2008, USA, pp 275-290
• Cooke GME,‘Building your fire wall (a specification for a high performance sandwich panel fire wall)’, Fire Safety Engineering, November, 2007, London, pp 17-20
• Cooke GME, ‘The big sandwich’, Fire Safety Engineering, March 2007, pp18-20 (about poor practice in making assessments of the fire resistance of oversize sandwich panels)
• Cooke GME,‘Stability of lightweight structural sandwich panels exposed to fire’, Fire and Materials, 2004; 28: pp 299-308 (187kb).
• Cooke GME,‘Stability of lightweight structural sandwich panels exposed to fire’, Structures in Fire (SiF 02) Conference Proc., University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2002 (661Kb)
• Cooke GME,’Design Fires for Testing Combustible-Cored Sandwich Panels’. Proc of Interflam’ 2001 International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, Edinburgh, September 2001 Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London
• Cooke GME,‘Fire’, Chapter 5 (pp 81 – 147) Lightweight sandwich construction (edited J M Davies), published Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-632-04027-0
• Cooke GME,‘Large sandwich panel fire resistance assessment’, The Structural Engineer, London, 4 October 2005, pp 18-21
• Cooke GME,’Large firewall panels pass the test’, Fire Safety Engineering, London, May, 2005, pp 33-35
• Cooke GME, ‘Sandwich Panel Debate: Fire hazard of sandwich panels – the effect of fire load’, Fire Engineers Journal, Vol 61, No 213, July 2001, pp 10-12 (244Kb)
• Cooke GME,’Sandwich panels for external cladding: Fire safety issues and implications for the fire risk assessment process’, Fire Engineers Journal, January 2001, pp 31-36
• Cooke GME, ‘The structural stability of bonded lightweight sandwich panels exposed to fire’, Volume 2 of Proceedings of Interflam ’99, International fire science and engineering conference held in Edinburgh on 29 June – 1 July 1999, Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London , pp 1209-1304, ISBN 0 9532312 3 2
• Cooke GME, ‘Sandwich Panels for External Cladding – Fire Safety Issues and Implications for the Risk Assessment Process’ Published by Eurisol, November 2000, pp 60 (3.5mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Sandwich Panel Debate: Fire hazard of sandwich panels – the effect of fire load’, Fire Engineers Journal, Vol 61, No 213, July 2001, pp 10-12
• Cooke GME, ‘Approved Document B – Will It Stop Early Collapse of Combustible Sandwich Panels?’ Fire Safety Engineering, April, 1998, pp 11-12 (209kb)
• Cooke GME,‘Composite panels or built-up systems? A 17 point check list for roof fire safety’, Roofing, December 1998, pp 8, 9 (250Kb)
• Cooke GME,’When are sandwich panels safe in fire?- Part 3 Fire scenarios, fire tests and checklist’, Fire Engineers Journal, January 1999, pp 18 – 25
• Cooke GME,’When are sandwich panels safe in fire?- Part 2 Avoiding collapse’, Fire Engineers Journal, Sept 1998, pp 25 – 33
• Cooke GME,’When are sandwich panels safe in fire?- Part 1 An overview’, Fire Engineers Journal, July 1998, pp 37 – 41
• Cooke GME,’The Behaviour of Sandwich Panels Exposed to Fire Building Engineer’, July 1997, pp 14- 29
• Cooke GME,‘Fire Safety Considerations in the Design of Structural Sandwich Panels’. BRE Information Paper IP 4/87 Building Research Establishment, May 1987, pp 4 (385Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire safety considerations in the design of structural sandwich panels’, VTT Symposium 72 ‘Industrial Planning, Engineering and Construction under Extreme Circumstances’Espoo, Finland, May 1986. Sponsored by CIB W66, published in December 1986, pp 67-74
  

Thermal bowing

• Cooke GME, ‘Thermal Bowing of Brick Walls Exposed to Fire on One Side’. Proc of Interflam ’96 International Conference, 26-28 March 1996, Cambridge, (written with K S Virdi and N Jeyarupalingam, City University) Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London, pp 915-919 (166Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Magnitude of Thermal Bowing of Concrete Slabs Exposed to Fire’. International Conference ‘Fire Research and Engineering’ sponsored by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST, and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Orlando, USA, 10-15 September 1995
• Cooke GME, ‘Thermal Bowing in Fire and How it Affects Building Design’. BRE Information Paper IP 21/88 Building Research Establishment (written with Mrs P B E Morgan), December 1988 (357Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Structural Response of Steel I-Section Members Subjected to Elevated Temperature Gradients Across the Section’. PhD thesis, Dept of Civil Engineering, City University, London, September 1987, pp 450
• Cooke GME, ‘Flexure of a loaded model steel I-beam heated along one flange to elevated temperatures,’ BRE Note 53/85, (also ECCS-3/1986/2 paper), April 1985, pp 40.
• Cooke GME, ‘Establishing the structural response of metal members subjected to heat from one side,’ BRE Research for Industry Leaflet, 1983, pp 4.
• Cooke GME, ‘Thermal bowing of steel members at elevated temperatures.’ BRE Note 81/83, June 1983, pp 101
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire engineering of tall fire separating walls.’ Fire Surveyor, Parts 1 & 2, June & August 1987, pp 13-29 and pp 19-29 respectively.
• Cooke GME, ‘The fire safety design of tall lightweight steel framed fire walls,’ Proceedings of the Nordic Steel Construction Conference ’95, Malmo, Sweden, held on 19-21 June 1995, Volume 2, pp 677-683.
  

Concrete construction

• Cooke GME, ‘Deflections of Concrete Floor Slabs Exposed to Standardised Fires and some Implications for Design’ The Structural Engineer, Vol 79, No 12, 19 June 2001, pp 26-34 (817kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Behaviour of Precast Concrete Floor Slabs Exposed to Standardised Fires’, Fire Safety Journal, Vol 36/5, May 2001, pp 459-475
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Factors’, (article on concrete spalling and new fire safety strategies for the Channel Tunnel) New Civil Engineer, 2-9 Jan 1997 (273Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Magnitude of Thermal Bowing of Concrete Slabs Exposed to Fire’. International Conference ‘Fire Research and Engineering’ sponsored by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST, and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Orlando, USA, 10-15 September 1995
• Cooke GME, ‘Results of tests on end-restrained reinforced concrete floor strips exposed to standard fires.’ BRE Client Report CR141/93, June 1993, pp 29.
• Cooke GME, ‘Modelling of fire test results on the behaviour of reinforced concrete slabs and strips exposed to fire.’ BRE Client Report CR32/93, March 1993.
• Cooke GME, ‘The deflections of unrestrained, precast reinforced concrete floor slabs exposed to standard fires and a natural fire,’ BRE Client Report CR 65/92, May 1992, pp 58.
• Cooke GME, ‘The Effects of Elevated Temperatures on the Strength Properties of Reinforcing and Prestressing Steels’ The Structural Engineer, Vol 60B, No.1, March 1982, pp 7-13, (written with R N Crook, M Holmes and R D Anchor). Awarded the Institution of Structural Engineers’ Henry Adams Diploma
• Cooke GME, ‘Guidelines for the Construction of Fire-Resisting Structural Elements’. BRE Report BR 128, Building Research Establishment, 1988,(written with W A Morris and R E H Read)
  

Steel construction

• Cooke GME, ‘Structural analysis of a heated steel portal frame by two different methods’, SIF’ 06, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop ‘Structures in Fire’, University of Aveiro, Portugal, May 2006 (written with Dhima, D)
• Cooke GME, ‘Experimental and numerical study of a 2-span steel I-beam heated along the lower flange’, SIF’ 06, Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop ‘Structures in Fire’, University of Aveiro, Portugal, May 2006 (written with Virdi K S) (219kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire protection of structural steelwork’, Report EUR 17987 En, European Commission, June 1998, ( written with Kruppa J, Twilt L and Wesch J), Brussels, pp 137
• Cooke GME, A review of compartment fire tests to explore the behaviour of structural steel, Fire, static and dynamic tests of building structures’, pub E&FN Spon, London, 1997, pp17 – 32 (1.1Mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Large compartment fire tests at Cardington and the Assessment of Eurocode 1,’ Proceedings of IABSE Colloquium, Delft, The Netherlands, (written with Y C Wang and D Moore), 1996.
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resistance of steel framed multi-storey buildings’, International Conference ‘Advances in Steel Structures’, 11-14 December 1966, Hong Kong, (written with Y Wang, D Moore and T Lennon)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire protection of structural steelwork’, Report EUR 17987 En, European Commisssion, June 1998, (written with Kruppa J, Twilt L and Wesch J), Brussels .
• Cooke GME, ‘Numerical Simulation of a Full Scale Fire Test on a Loaded Steel Framework’. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol 35, No 3, 1995, London (written with J M Franssen and D J Latham) pp 377-408
• Cooke GME, ‘Numerical modelling of the behaviour of steel beams and columns exposed to fire,’ BRE Client Report CR 114/92, July 1992.
• Cooke GME, ‘Numerical modelling of the behaviour of steel beams and columns exposed to fire,’ BRE Client Report CR 69/90, November 1990
• Cooke GME, ‘An Introduction to the Mechanical Properties of Structural Steel at Elevated Temperatures’ Fire Safety Journal, Vol 13, No 1, 1988, pp 45-54 (650Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Guidelines for the Construction of Fire-Resisting Structural Elements’. BRE Report BR 128, Building Research Establishment, 1988, (written with Morris W Aand Read R E H)
• Cooke GME, ‘The Structural Response of Steel I-Section Members Subjected to Elevated Temperature Gradients Across the Section’. PhD thesis, Dept of Civil Engineering, City University, London, September 1987, pp 450
• Cooke GME, ‘The Inherent Fire Resistance of a Loaded Steel Framework’ Steel Construction Today,1,1987, pp 49-58 (written with D J Latham)(662Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resistant steel structures: free-standing blockwork filled columns and stanchions,’ BRE Digest 317, December 1986, pp 4
• Cooke GME, ‘Effect of end restraint on the bending of loaded steel beams heated to elevated temperatures,’ BRE Note 92/85 (also ECCS-3/1986/1 paper), July 1985, pp 71.
• Cooke GME, ‘Flexure of a loaded model steel I-beam heated along one flange to elevated temperatures,’ BRE Note 53/85, (also ECCS-3/1986/2 paper), April 1985, pp 40.
• Cooke GME, ‘Practical fire engineering: Part D: Application of steel models research,’ National
  Structural Steel Conference 1984 ‘ New Developments in Steel Construction’, held on 11 and 12 December 1984, sponsored by The British Constructional Steelwork Association, pp 5/0/1-/7
• Cooke GME, ‘The structural response of steel portal frames with one column heated to elevated temperatures.’ Building Research Establishment Note N143/82, 1982, October 1982, pp 59
• Cooke GME, ‘New Methods of Fire Protection for External Steelwork’. Technical Study, Architects Journal, 28 August 1974, pp 493-516
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire protection methods for external steelwork’. Fire Prevention Science and Technology No 9, July 1974, pp 4-12
• Cooke GME, ‘Do water-filled columns offer fire protection?’ New Scientist, 28 February 1974, pp 557-558
• Cooke GME, ‘Water Filled Structures’ Building with Steel, No 15, August 1973, pp 26-33 (0.96Mb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resistant steel structures: free-standing blockwork filled columns and stanchions,’ BRE Digest 317, Building Research Establishment, December 1986,pp 4, ( written with British Steel Corporation)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire protection methods for external steelwork’. Fire Prevention Science and Technology No 9, July 1974, pp 4-12
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire resisting construction’. Chapter 39 of 4th edition of Steel Designers Manual published by Crosby Lockwood, May 1972 (Written with D Elliott, Constrado).
• Cooke GME, ‘Facts in the fire’, Researched and wrote draft (for this British Steel Corporation disclaimer of Cement and Concrete Association sponsored report ‘The role of structural fire protection’) as result of computer-aided study of fire statistics at the Fire Research Station, Borehamwood. Published by Constrado, May 1971
• Cooke GME and Butcher EG, ‘Structural Steel and Fire’, BCSA Conference Steel in Architecture, November 1969
  

Composite steel/concrete

• Cooke GME, ‘The fire safety engineering of steel/concrete composite structures,’ presented at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers International Conference ‘Materials and Design against Fire’ in October 1992, published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1992 (written with B Kerridge), p 53 – 58. (563Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Resistance of Composite Deck Slabs’. The Structural Engineer, Vol 66, No 16, (written with R M Lawson & G M Newman, SCI) August 1988(986Kb)
  

Masonry

• Cooke GME, ‘The Thermal Bowing of Brick Walls Exposed to Fire on One Side’. Proc of Interflam ’96 International Conference, 26-28 March 1996, Cambridge, (written with K S Virdi and N Jeyarupalingam, City University) Published by Interscience Communications Ltd, London, PP 915-919(166Kb)
  

Tunnels

• Cooke GME, ‘Fire Factors’, (article on concrete spalling and new fire safety strategies for the Channel Tunnel) New Civil Engineer, 2-9 Jan 1997(273Kb)
  

Bridges

• Cooke GME, ‘Report on fire damage to the Broadwater bridge’, Worthing, on 13 April 1997. Client: West Sussex Engineering Consultancy, Chichester, 1997
  

Ships

• Cooke GME, ‘The Severity of Fire in a Large Compartment with Restricted Ventilation’. pp 7. IMAS 94 Conference. ‘Fire Safety on Ships – Developments into the 21st century’. London, 26-27 May 1994 Proc published by the Institution of Marine Engineers (624Kb
  

Notable fires

• Cooke GME, ‘Lessons from the Broadgate Fire,’ Building Services, March 1994, pp 47-48
  

World Trade Centre disaster

• Cooke GME, ‘Resistance of tall buildings to large aircraft impact and fire’, Structures in Fire (SiF 02) Conference Proc, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2002
  

Structural innovation

• Cooke GME, ‘The environmental and practical constraints’, pp10, and ‘The architecture of excitement’, pp17. Architects Journal, 18 July and 8 August 1973. These two Technical Studies were later published as Section 10 ‘Structural Innovation’ of the A J Handbook of Building Structure. (Written with W W Frischman and M Quantrill).
  

Product innovation

• Cooke GME, Fire risk assessment of the chip-pan fire hazard in a large London hostel, paper presented at International Standards Organisation TC 92 SC4 ‘Fire Risk Workshop’, Kyoto University, 3 November 2006. Published in a special issue of the International Journal for Fire Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2007.
• Cooke GME, ‘Fire safety engineering applied to the domestic chip-pan fire problem’, Building Engineer, London, June,2005, pp 22-24
• Cooke GME, ‘The application gap in new product development of sheet steel building components and systems’, presented at RIBA/ISI conference ‘Sheet Steel in Building’, 22 March 1972, and published in Iron and Steel Institute Book 148. (522Kb)
• Cooke GME, ‘The development of the IBIS concept’ and ‘The development and testing of the family of IBIS floors’. Proceedings of the first International Symposium ‘Thin walled structures – their design and use in buildings’held at Swansea University in September 1967. Published by Crosby Lockwood, September 1969, pp477-527 (written with A M U Caldwell).

  Updated October 2010