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Home Cooking Fire Mitigation: Technology Assessment. Final Report.

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
Joshua Dinaburg, Daniel T. Guttuk
Cooking related fires are a leading cause of U.S. fire loss. Beginning in the mid 1980's, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the home appliance industry undertook a comprehensive review 1 of

Modeling Produces Insight into Fire Behavior

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
Adam M. Barowy, Daniel M. Madrzykowski
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the leader in the development of computer-based fire models that simulate the movement of fire gases and heat through a building and estimate the response of various fire protection systems. NIST

Modeling and Analysis of Disproportionate Collapse of RC Structures

October 31, 2011
Author(s)
Yihai Bao, Hai S. Lew, S K. Kunnath
Collapse analyses of a 10-story reinforced concrete frame building are carried out to investigate the robustness of structural systems against column removal scenarios. Computationally efficient reduced models are developed and used in the analyses. The

Predicting Human Behavior during Fires

October 4, 2011
Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski
Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are used to evaluate the level of safety provided by buildings during evacuation. Building designs and occupant procedures are based on the results produced from these

Mathematical Modeling of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires.

September 14, 2011
Author(s)
Randall J. McDermott, Ronald Rehm
This paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) setting. The model combines an empirical formula for wind-driven grass-fire spread and a

Structural and Electromagnetic Scenarios for Firefighter Locator Tracking Systems

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Francine K. Amon, Kathryn M. Butler, Catherine A. Remley, William F. Young, Christina Spoons
One of the most important aspects of effective firefighter response to an emergency event is awareness of the location of the firefighters involved, especially in cases with limited visibility due to darkness, heavy smoke, or unfamiliar and changing

Performance of New and Aged Residential Fire Sprinklers

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Anthony D. Putorti Jr., William F. Guthrie, Jason D. Averill, Richard G. Gann
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) initiated a program to determine the effects of emissions from problem drywall on residential electrical, gas distribution, and fire safety components. As part of this program, the National Institute of

Nucleation and Growth of Freshly-Formed Particles from Limonene Ozonolysis

August 30, 2011
Author(s)
Chi P. Hoang, Dong H. Rim, Lance L. Wallace, Andrew K. Persily
In building environments, oxidation reactions involving ozone and terpenoids lead to nano-sized particle formation [Jang et al. 1999]. Low volatility products of these reactions are important and add to particle mass concentrations in air through

DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED REFERENCE MATERIAL FOR VOC EMISSIONS TESTING

August 29, 2011
Author(s)
Zhe Liu, Cynthia H. Reed, Steve Cox, John Little
To improve the reliability and accuracy of tests used to measure emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from samples of interior building products, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Virginia Tech (VT) have created a

Indoor Air Quality in Energy Efficient Buildings

August 29, 2011
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Steven J. Emmerich
Building energy efficiency has been an important goal for decades. Since the energy crisis of the 1970s, much has been learned about how to improve energy efficiency in buildings. More recently, given increases in energy costs and concerns about the

SRM 1450d, Fibrous-Glass Board, for Thermal Conductivity from 280 K to 340 K

August 1, 2011
Author(s)
Robert R. Zarr, Amanda C. Harris, John F. Roller, Stefan D. Leigh
Thermal conductivity measurements at and near room temperature are presented as the basis for certified values of thermal conductivity for SRM 1450d, Fibrous Glass Board. The measurements have been conducted in accordance with a randomized full factorial
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