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Assessing Fire-blocking Performance of Laminated Barrier Fabrics Using Derived Cone Calorimetric Parameters

August 21, 2020

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Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, John R. Shields, Mauro Zammarano

The fire blocking performance of barrier fabrics laminated to upholstery materials was investigated. The results are two-fold. The first involves information gathered directly from cone calorimetry tests conducted on foam/fabric composites to better

Numerical and Experimental Studies of Extinguishment of Cup-Burner Flames by C6F12O

August 1, 2020

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Fumiaki Takahashi, Viswanath R. Katta, Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris

The extinguishment processes of cup-burner flames by adding a halon-replacement fire-extinguishing agent C6F12O (Novec 1230) to coflowing air in normal gravity have been studied computationally and experimentally. The time-dependent, axisymmetric numerical

Investigating Coupled Effect of Radiative Heat Flux and Firebrand Showers on Ignition of Fuel Beds

July 16, 2020

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Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Fire spread occurs via radiation, flame contact, and firebrands. While firebrand showers are known to be a cause of spot fires which ignite fuels far from the main fire front, in the case of short distance spot fires, radiation from the main fire may play

Influence of Angle Orientation on Firebrand Production from the Combustion of Surrogate Photovoltaic (PV) Panel Assemblies Exposed to Applied Wind Fields

July 6, 2020

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Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

A shared feature in the rapid spread of large outdoor fires are the production or generation of new, far smaller combustible fragments from the original fire source referred to as firebrands. A simplified experimental protocol has been developed that

Influence of Dispositional and Situational Factors on Human Perceptions of Fire Risk

June 25, 2020

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Isaac T. Leventon, Justin W. Bonny

Studies of human behavior during emergencies have observed that when presented with situational cues that a hazard may be present, humans can fail to act on this information in a timely manner. Models of human behavior in response to fire-related

Investigating Coupled Effect of Radiative Heat Flux and Firebrand Showers on Ignition of Fuel Beds  Structure vs Vegetative Firebrands

May 28, 2020

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Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

This is two page extended abstract

Automated Fitting of Thermogravimetric Analysis Data

May 22, 2020

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Isaac T. Leventon, Morgan C. Bruns

The Characteristics of a 1 m Methanol Pool Fire

May 4, 2020

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Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew Bundy, Anthony Hamins

A series of measurements was made to characterize the structure of a 1 m diameter methyl 12 alcohol (methanol; CH3OH) pool fire steadily burning with a constant lip height in a quiescent 13 environment. Time-averaged local measurements of gas-phase

Experimental study on vulnerabilities of Japanese style tile roof assemblies to firebrand exposures

April 18, 2020

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Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Roof assemblies are known to be vulnerable to firebrands in urban and wildland-urban interface fires. In the 2016 urban fire in Japan (Itoigawa-City Fire), at least 10 structures were ignited by firebrand showers and three of these structures were ignited

Analysis of a Slug Calorimeter with a Curie Point

April 3, 2020

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Jiann C. Yang, Thomas J. Ohlemiller

A lump-capacitance heat transfer model was developed to model the operation of a slug calorimeter constructed of metal with a Curie point. The resulting formula has been successfully used to infer total heat flux to a metal structural member in a fire by

Intumescent Polydopamine Coatings for Fire Protection

March 9, 2020

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Douglas M. Fox, Whirang Cho, Laura J. Dubrulle, Phillip Grutzmacher, Mauro Zammarano, Douglas M. Fox

Polydopamine coatings containing additional bioderived flame retardants were used as coatings for polyurethane foam and cardboard. The ability to form intumescing coatings was crucial for achieving good flame protection. Dopamine can effectively

Special Section on Global Overview of Large Outdoor Fire Standards

February 6, 2020

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello

This is a guest editorial.

Garnering understanding into complex firebrand generation processes from large outdoor fires using simplistic laboratory-scale experimental methodologies

February 2, 2020

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Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

A simple laboratory-scale experimental method was developed to study firebrand generation processes. As part of these experiments, Japanese wind facilities were used to elucidate the effect of wind speed on the firebrand generation. It was found that very

Development of the Communication framework for Hybrid Fire Testing: applications in the virtual and real environment

January 1, 2020

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Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, Artur A. Chernovsky, Mina S. Seif

Hybrid fire testing is a new technique (under development) to performing fire test. It was inspired from subtructuring method and assumes testing individual structural members, as during standard fire testing, which communicate with the analytical