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Fire Fighting Tactics under Wind Driven Conditions: Laboratory Experiments

January 21, 2009
Author(s)
Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Stephen Kerber
Eight full scale experiments were conducted to examine the impact of wind on fire spread through a multi-room structure and examine the capabilities of wind control devices (WCD) and externally applied water streams to mitigate the hazard. The principle

Target Penetration of Laser-Based 3D Imaging Systems

January 19, 2009
Author(s)
Geraldine S. Cheok, Kamel S. Saidi, Marek Franaszek
The ASTM E57.02 Test Methods Subcommittee is developing a test method to evaluate the ranging performance of a 3D imaging system. The test method will involve either measuring the distance between two targets or between an instrument and a target. The

Capillary Rise between Planar Surfaces

January 14, 2009
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Bullard, Edward J. Garboczi
Minimization of free energy is used to calculate the equilibrium verticalrise and mensicus shape of a liquid column between two closelyspaced, parallel planar surfaces that are inert and immobile. States of minimum free energy are found using standard

Effect of CuO Nanolubricant on R134a Pool Boiling Heat Transfer

January 6, 2009
Author(s)
Mark A. Kedzierski, M Gong
This paper quantifies the influence of CuO nanoparticles on the boiling performance of R134a/polyolester mixtures on a roughened, horizontal, flat surface. Nanofluids are liquids that contain dispersed nano-size particles. A lubricant based nanofluid

Clean Agent Suppression of Energized Electrical Equipment Fires

January 1, 2009
Author(s)
Gregory T. Linteris
The NFPA 2001 standard on the use of clean agents for the suppression of fires arose from the phase-out of Halon 1301. Standard methods exists for specifying the amount of clean agent required for Class A and Class B fires, but the recommendation for Class

Stairwell Evacuation from Buildings: What We Know We Don't Know

January 1, 2009
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Erica D. Kuligowski
Occupant descent down stairwells during building evacuations is typically described by measurable engineering variables such as stairwell geometry, speed, density, and pre-evacuation delay. In turn, predictive models of building evacuation use these

Facility Interface to the Smart Grid

December 31, 2008
Author(s)
David G. Holmberg
Homes, commercial buildings and the industrial sector together represent 100 percent of the load on the electric grid. Beyond load, these facilities provide a growing amount of electric generation and storage in the form of distributed energy resources

Durability of Building Joint Sealants

December 12, 2008
Author(s)
Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston
Predicting the service life of building joint sealants exposed to service environments in less than real times has been a need of the sealant community for many decades. Despite extensive research efforts have been made to design laboratory accelerated

Smokeview: A Visualization Tool for Understanding Fire Dynamics

December 1, 2008
Author(s)
Glenn P. Forney
The purpose of fire modeling is to gain a better insight into fire dynamics and how it impacts fire safety -- not to generate large amounts of data. Gaining this insight requires visualization tools that display what the numbers generated by the model

Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1A)

November 20, 2008
Author(s)
Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Richard G. Gann, William L. Grosshandler, Hai S. Lew, Richard W. Bukowski, Fahim Sadek, Frank W. Gayle, John L. Gross, Therese P. McAllister, Jason D. Averill, James R. Lawson, Harold E. Nelson, Stephen A. Cauffman
This report describes how the fires that followed the impact of debris from the collapse of WTC 1 (the north tower) led to the collapse of WTC 7; an evaluation of the building evacuation and emergency response procedures; what procedures and practices were

Global Structural Analysis of the Response of World Trade Center Building 7 to Fires and Debris Impact Damage, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-9A)

November 20, 2008
Author(s)
Robert S. MacNeill, Therese P. McAllister
This report analyzes the global response of WTC 7 to fire-induced structural failures and the resulting sequence of component and subsystem failures to determine the events that led to the global collapse of the building. The analysis involved a finite

Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-9) VOLUMES 1 and 2

November 20, 2008
Author(s)
Therese P. McAllister
This report provides technical documentation of how NIST reconstructed the effects of the events on September 11, 2001 on WTC 7. This includes how the fires that followed the impact of debris from the collapse of WTC 1 (the north tower) led to the collapse

Building Networks and Public Safety Communications

November 18, 2008
Author(s)
David G. Holmberg, Stephen J. Treado, William D. Davis, Steven T. Bushby, Alan B. Vinh, Michael A. Galler, R Vettori
The Building Networks and Public Safety Communications project has three components: (1) addressing feasibility of using building networks for bridging first responder radio communications into buildings, (2) recommending changes to the SAFECOM Statement

Impacts of Information Technologies on Performance: A Cross Study Comparison

November 3, 2008
Author(s)
Yongcheol Kang, William O'Brien, Stephen R. Thomas, Robert E. Chapman
This paper evaluates the use of Information Technology (IT) and its impact on project and company performance in the construction industry. Using project level data from 139 projects and company level data from 74 companies, the current state of IT use in

Standards Development for Gas Phase Air Cleaning Equipment in Buildings

November 3, 2008
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Cynthia H. Reed, Stephanie S. Watson, Nicos Martys, Edward J. Garboczi, Heather Davis
Concerns about building security have resulted in increasing interest in gas phase air cleaning (GPAC) and the need for standard methods to determine the effectiveness of these systems. Similarly, the ability to predict their installed performance, based

A Comparison of Viscosity-Concentration Relationships for Emulsions

November 1, 2008
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Bullard, A T. Pauli, Edward J. Garboczi, Nicos Martys
Differential Effective Medium Theory (D-EMT) is applied to derive expressions for the viscosity of a colloidal suspension or an emulsion as a function of the volume fraction of the dispersed phase. The application of D-EMT to this problem depends on how

Meaningful Performance Evalution Conditions for Fire Service Thermal Imaging Cameras

November 1, 2008
Author(s)
Francine K. Amon, Anthony P. Hamins, Nelson P. Bryner, Justin Rowe
Thermal imaging cameras (TIC) are rapidly becoming integral equipment for the fire service for use in structure fires and other emergencies. The Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has

METRICS TO SUPPORT INFORMED DECISION MAKING FOR CONSUMERS OF BIOBASED PRODUCTS

October 30, 2008
Author(s)
Barbara C. Lippiatt, Marvin Duncan, Zia Haq, Roger Conway
As public policy initiatives, coupled with growing consumer interest have raised the level of interest in the bioeconomy, the question of the appropriate criteria to use in selecting bioproducts, including biofuels, and evaluating their environmental and

Reanalysis of BASE Ventilation Data

October 10, 2008
Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily
In 2004, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published an analysis of the ventilation data collected as part of the U.S. EPA Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) study [1]. That analysis provided a unique dataset of office
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