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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

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

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - Experimental Results from Open Box Enclosures

Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Edward Hnetkovsky, Andre Thompson, Michael Selepak, Philip Deardorff, Kenneth Hamburger, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Miller, Kenneth Armijo, Paul Clem, Alvaro Cruz-Cabrera, Byron Demosthenous, Austin Glover, Chris LaFleur, Raymond Martinez, James Taylor, Rana Weaver, Caroline Winters
This report documents an experimental program to investigate High Energy Arcing Fault (HEAF) phenomena. The experiments provide data to better characterize the

Report on High Energy Arcing Fault Experiments - Experimental Results from Low Voltage Switchgear Enclosures

Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Edward Hnetkovsky, Andre Thompson, Michael Selepak, Philip Deardorff, Kenneth Hamburger, Nicholas Melly, Kenneth Miller
This report documents an experimental program designed to investigate High Energy Arcing Fault (HEAF) phenomena for low-voltage metal enclosed switchgear

Report on High Energy Arc Fault Experiments: Experimental Results from Medium Voltage Electrical Enclosures

Author(s)
Gabriel Taylor, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Scott Bareham, Edward Hnetkovsky, Kenneth Hamburger, Nicholas Melly, Mark Henry Salley, Christopher U. Brown, Wai Cheong Tam, Eric Link, Michael Selepak, Philip Deardorff, Kenneth Miller, Paul Clem, Byron Demosthenous, Austin Glover, Chris LaFleur, Raymond Martinez, Anthony Tanbakuchi
This report documents an experimental program designed to investigate High Energy Arcing Fault (HEAF) phenomena for medium voltage electrical switchgear
Created October 8, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022