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Engineering Laboratory /Fire Research Division

Flammability Reduction Group

The Flammability Reduction Group develops, advances, and deploys measurement science to reduce fire hazard of building contents and construction materials. Carries out mission-related measurement science research and services to reduce material ignition probability, fire growth and spread, and environmental impacts; and develop codes and standards for cost-effective, fire-safe building contents and construction materials.

Two firefighters look over the last flames inside a compartment where the flammability of cross-laminated timber buildings is being tested.
New NIST Roadmap Charts Path to Reduced Fire Hazards from Materials
Furniture Burn
Upholstered Furniture Fires
A box of cigarettes is labeled: Standard Cigarette for Ignition Resistance Testing.
NIST Releases a New Standard Cigarette for Testing the Flammability of Mattresses and Furniture

Staff Spotlight

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Figure 1. Reduced-scale Test to Assess the Effect of Fire Barriers on the Combustion Behavior of Core Flammable Materials (FRPM19 Abstract)

May 13, 2019

Dr. Mauro Zammarano has been selected to deliver a keynote presentation at this year’s European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials (FRPM19). Dr. Zammarano’s talk is titled, “Reduced-scale Test to Assess the Effect of Fire Barriers on The Combustion Behavior of Core Flammable Materials: An Upholstery-Material Composites Case Study.”
 

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HIghlight

October 29, 2019

FAAFS

The Ninth Triennial International Fire & Cabin Safety Research Conference
October 28, 2019

Two members of the NIST Flammability Reduction Group (FRG) recently attended the Ninth Triennial International Fire & Cabin Safety Research Conference…

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News and Updates

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Interflam 2019

Six members of the NIST Fire Research Division (including three current or former members of the Flammability Reduction Group) recently traveled to the Royal
FRPM Outline

FRPM19

Three members of the NIST Flammability Reduction group recently traveled to Turku, Finland for the biennial European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric

Projects and Programs

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Engineered Fire Safe Products

This project will conduct research to support the use of lightweight (wood, plastics, and composites)-engineered fire safe products (L-EFSP) with long fire
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Publications

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Software

CFAST

CFAST

The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects and builders

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
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Tools and Instruments

Cone Calorimeter

Cone Calorimeter

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the fire community was pushing for reliable bench-scale tools to measure material flammability based on heat release rate. A

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