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Thermal imaging cameras (TIC) have become a vital fire fighting tool for the first responder community but there are currently no standardized quality control
William Holmes, Andre Filiatrault, John Hooper, Nicolas Luco, Jack Moehle, Maryann Phipps
To encourage further development of PBSD, FEMA commissioned several action plans that included work plans and budgets, and these efforts culminated in 2002 when
The performance of modern buildings with respect to protecting life safety in recent earthquakes (e.g., 1989 Loma Prieta, 1994 Northridge, and 2001 Nisqually)
The current work explored how choice of surfactant, fire temperature and processing pressure affect the assembly process for particles in the barrier layer. The
Pool fires are buoyancy-driven diffusion flames fed by the vaporization of a horizontally aligned, condensed-phase fuel. Volatile liquids and solids can serve
Predictions of fire plume and ceiling jet temperature and the response of thermal detectors from NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator(FDS)were compared to data from a
This program1 was conducted for The National Institute For Standards and Technology under Contact Number NA1341-02-W-0686. Hughes Associates, Inc. performed
In this report is described the work effort by Reaction Engineering International (REI) to develop, demonstrate and deliver to the National Institute of
Aircraft fire suppression applications inherently demanding performance requirements, made all the more challenging by low temperature conditions, physical
sprinklers provide an estimated 75% reduction in death rate within residential structures, they are installed in less than 2% of new U.S. homes. A major
Our results extending Kuhn's fault class hierarchy provide a justification for the focus of fault-based testing strategies on detecting particular faults and
The standard methods used to derive effective thermal properties of thermally thick materials based on bench-scale radiant exposure tests are reviewed and
This paper reports an experimental technique that is developed for instantaneous planar measurement of droplet size and velocity for dilute sprays in general
An evaluation of the NIST FDS model was conducted with particular attention for its use in predicting flame spread on surfaces. Over the course of this
The Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a recently developed field tire model based on large eddy simulation (LES), is used to simulate seven full-scale fire tests
Extinction and scattering properties at wavelengths of 250-5200 nm were studied for soot emitted from large buoyant turbulent diffusion flames where soot
A systematic evaluation of the stability of a re-circulation zone behind a backward facing step under conditions expected in an aircraft engine nacelle has been
In 1996, the originators of the Streamlining the Nation's Building Regulatory Process project agreed that proven examples of regulatory streamlining initiatives
The United States' building and fire communities have recently begun transitioning towards the implementation of performance-based building regulations and the
Performance-based fire safety design methods are being used or developed in many parts of the world. The bases of several of these methods are the many fire
Executive Order 12699, Seismic Safety of Federal and Federally Assisted or Regulated New Building Construction, requires that all federally owned, leased
A simulation model is implemented in order to predict the fire performance of materials in the ISO 9705 Room-Corner Test. These materials were tested by the L S
This report describes the surface wind speeds and structural damage caused by Hurricane Fran during its passage across North Carolina and Virginia on 5-6
The performance of nonstructural building components in the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake has received a considerable attention, especially building