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Comparison of Flow Measurement Devices for Large Fire Experiments

April 12, 2024
Author(s)
Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Rodney Bryant
Bi-directional probes are utilized throughout fire research and testing to measure fire induced flows due to their ability to measure flow which changes direction, and to withstand hostile environments. However, they are not available commercially and

Fire Resilience of a Steel-Concrete Composite Floor System: Full Scale Experimental Evaluation for Influence of Slab Reinforcement and Unprotected Secondary Beam (Test #3)

October 2, 2023
Author(s)
Selvarajah Ramesh, Lisa Choe, Matthew Hoehler, Matthew Bundy, Rodney Bryant, Giovanni Di Cristina Torres, Brian Story, Anthony R. Chakalis, Artur A. Chernovsky, Philip Deardorff, Michael Selepak
The National Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a series of large compartment fire tests to investigate the behavior and fire-induced failure mechanisms of full-scale composite floor assemblies with a