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Scott Bareham (Fed)

Scott Bareham is an Electrical Engineer in the Engineered Fire Safety Group in the Fire Research Division (FRD) of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Mr. Bareham retired in 1992 from the United States Air Force after serving more than 20 years.  He performed duties as an F-16 Avionics System Specialist,  Air Eduction and Training Command F-16 Avionics Master Instructor, C-17 Curriculum Manager, and C-141 and C-5 Training Manager.

After completing his degree in 2009, Mr. Bareham was hired as an Electrical Engineer at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Fire Research Division.

Currently, Mr. Bareham is concentrating his efforts in support of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Cable Heat Release, Ignition, and Spread in Tray Installations during Fire (CHRISTIFIRE) research project.  He is responsible for developing test plans, identifying and mitigating safety concerns, performing bench scale and large scale experiments, and analyzing the resultant data to determine the behavior of burning electrical cables. This information will be used to update and improve current U. S. Nuclear Power Plant's Probabilistic Risk Assessment models.

Publications

Thermal Exposure of Objects Near Burning Electrical Enclosures

Author(s)
Kevin McGrattan, Isaac Leventon, Scott Bareham, Gabriel Taylor
This report documents a series of fire experiments performed within steel electrical enclosures and on open "ladder back" cable trays. The first objective is to

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - International Experimental Results from Bus Duct and Switchgear Enclosures

Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Michael Heck, Lucy Fox, Stephen Fink, Michael Selepak, Edward Hnetkovsky, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Hamburger, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to collect data and information to evaluate the performance of models developed to estimate the

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments: Experimental Results from Medium-Voltage Bus Duct and Switchgear Enclosures

Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith, Stephen Fink, Michael Heck, Edward Hnetkovsky, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Hamburger, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to investigate high energy arcing fault (HEAF) phenomena for medium-voltage, metal-enclosed bus ducts and

Data and Software Publications

Created October 8, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022
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