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Fire fighting

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Projects and Programs

Automated Tools for Material Property Calibration

Ongoing
Objective: To develop open source, freely available tools for property calibration and maintain archived, version-controlled material property sets with demonstrated accuracy. These tools should be: Accurate: Parameters predict experimental data Realistic: Values agree with physics Efficient: Fast

Smart Fire Fighting

Ongoing
Objective: By 2019, develop the measurement science that enables fusion of cyber-physical systems from buildings, apparatus, personal protective equipment, and robotics that enhances situation awareness, operational effectiveness, and fire fighter safety. What is the new technical idea? The new

Low Heat Release Upholstered Furniture

Ongoing
PROJECT OBJECTIVE: The objective is to reduce the fire hazard of residential upholstered furniture by providing 1) a methodology and guidance on non-fire-retardant mitigation strategies that will result in L-RUF, 2) robust standard reference cigarettes for smoldering ignition testing and the

Publications

Software

FDS and Smokeview

Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier

ToGS Turnout Gear Selector

Turnout Gear Selector (ToGS) helps the manufacturers, purchasers and users of fire turnout gear evaluate and select the turnout coat and pants ensemble that