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NIST will develop a model to predict evacuation decision-making during fires through a better understanding and quantification of the risk perceived by
The Engineered Fire Safe Products (EFSP) Project is developing a database (the NIST Material Flammability Database) to maintain the tools (experimental and
Reliable computational predictions of flame spread and fire growth can assist in the design and selection of reduced flammability materials. Due to the
This program reduces community fire risk by 1) increasing the fire resilience of wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities and 2) enhancing the safety and
Total absorptivity of glass in the presence of a N2/CO2/H2O is determined numerically using the glass spectral optical properties and the spectroscopic data
Isaac Leventon, Michael Heck, Kevin B. McGrattan, Matthew Bundy, Rick D. Davis
This report provides an overview of quantitative measurement data and visual observations obtained from a series of 52 full-scale fire growth experiments
Tarek Beji, Talal Fateh, Jason Floyd, hugues Pretrel, Anthony Hamins
The use of fire models to support fire protection engineering decisions requires an understanding of model shortcomings and assurance in their predictive
Jian Chen, Zhenghui Wang, Yanni Zhang, Yang Li, Wai Cheong Tam, Depeng Kong, Jun Deng
There are many potential hazards related with hot surface in industrial processes. Therefore, the ignition characteristics of liquid fuels on hot surfaces play
The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects and builders
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
The National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) operates calorimeters to measure the heat and combustion products for fires in the range of 50 kW to 20,000 kW