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Mechanical properties and off gassing characteristics of new and legacy SCBA facepieces

December 11, 2018
Author(s)
Richard Kesler, Constandinos Mitsingas, Adam G. Quiat, Tonghun Lee, Daniel Madrzykowski, Gavin Horn
In today’s structure fires, evolving fire loads and higher heat release rates mean that fires grow larger and faster than ever before. Firefighting personal protective equipment (PPE) can be subjected to these severe thermal conditions repeatedly during

Community Risk Ratings for the FireCARES System

October 15, 2018
Author(s)
Stanley W. Gilbert
The FireCARES project is a web-based tool intended to help fire departments effectively match resources to community risk. Among other things that includes estimates of the community risk and estimates of effectiveness of response. This report documents

Propane Gas Fire Experiments in Residential Scale Structures

February 27, 2017
Author(s)
Joseph M. Willi
Nine full-scale fire experiments were conducted in two residential-scale structures to study how different fire fighting tactics, specifically horizontal, vertical, and positive pressure ventilation, affect the fire environment within a structure. The fire

Examination of Compressed Air Foam (CAF) for Interior Fire Fighting

January 23, 2017
Author(s)
Craig G. Weinschenk, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Keith Stakes, Joseph M. Willi
Experiments were conducted to investigate the capabilities and limitations of compressed air foam (CAF) relative to water when used for interior structural fire fighting. The key outcomes were to measure the gas cooling and fire suppression capabilities of

Impact of Hose Streams on Air Flows inside a Structure

October 3, 2016
Author(s)
Joseph M. Willi, Daniel M. Madrzykowski, Craig G. Weinschenk
Fire suppression tactics using hose streams can affect ventilation in a structure and may impact the movement of smoke and heat through a structure. Seven series of experiments were conducted to study the impact of different hose stream and nozzle movement

Simulation of a Wind Driven Basement Fire - Riverdale Heights, MD

April 27, 2015
Author(s)
Craig G. Weinschenk, Kristopher Overholt, Daniel M. Madrzykowski
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), which is a fire model that is developed and maintained by the Na- tional Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), was used to provide insight into the dynamics of a fire that occurred on February 24, 2012, within a

IMPROVING RADIANT HEAT RESISTANCE OF POLYCARBONATE LENSES

January 1, 2015
Author(s)
George C. Braga, Amy Mensch, Nelson P. Bryner
The purpose of this paper is to make a study of the degradation of polycarbonate lenses when submitted to thermal radiations between 5 and 15kW/m2. In addition, it studies how to improve the lenses' thermal resistance by adding a thin reflexive reflective