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William M. Pitts, Rodney A. Bryant, L G. Blevins, M L. Huber
The use of halon 1301 for fire fighting is being phased out due to its deleterious effects on stratospheric ozone. This report summarizes the findings of a three-year study designed to characterize and identify super-effective thermal fire-fighting agents
Richard W. Bukowski, R P. Fleming, Jeffrey Tubbs, Christopher Marrion, Jill Dirksen, Chris Duke, Debbie Prince, Lee F. Richardson, Dave Beste, Dottie Stanlaske
NIST to develop a common, international vision for how a scientific foundation for performance-based fire safety design might be structured, which parts of the foundation are likely to be robust and where gaps are likely to exist into the foreseeable
Samuel L. Manzello, Thomas G. Cleary, John R. Shields, Jiann C. Yang
An experimental apparatus has been built to investigate the ignition of fuel beds as a result of impact with burning firebrands. The apparatus allowed for the ignition and deposition of both single and multiple firebrands onto the target fuel bed. The