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The use of acoustic emission (AE) as an early indicator of structural materials exposed to a flame has been investigated and found to be possible. Piezoelectric
In the early morning hours of March 25, 1990 a tragic fire took the lives of 87 persons at a neighborhood club in the Bronx, New York. A few days later, the New
Many fires occur in ambient atmospheric conditions. To investigate certain types of firew, however, it is necessary to consider combustion where the oxidizer is
A first order model and computer program implementing previously developed procedures for estimating the speed, depth, and temperature of a fire produced
Working with Forestry Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the Defense Nuclear Agency carried out an extensively instrumented experiment of a
Barbara C. Levin, P R. Rechani, F Landron, J R. Rodriguez, L Droz, F M. deCabrera, S Kaye, J L. Gurman, H M. Clark, M F. Yoklavich
A fire that occurred during the afternoon of December 31, 1986 in the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico claimed 97 lives and injured more than 140
A computer model for simulation of smoke movement through air conditioning systems is described. A brief overview of air conditioning systems is presented. The
Aqueous solutions of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol are cornmon heat transfer fluids for solar collector systems. Thermal oxidative degradation produces
The oxygen consumption technique is emerging as a powerful tool for determing the heat release rate in a number of diverse fire test applications, including
A review is presented of high-resolution Raman spectroscopy of gases, including spontaneous, incoherent Raman spectroscopy, as well as of non-linear, coherent