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Firebrands generated in Shurijo Castle Fire on October 30th, 2019

September 14, 2021
Author(s)
Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
… A fire started in Shurijo Seiden, or the main hall of Shurijo Castle, … on the morning of October 30th, 2019. The fire resulted in loss of 8 structures and many important Okinawan cultural … taiwanensis). Firebrands were reported during the fire. In this study, firebrands from Shurijo Castle was collected …

Thermochemical behavior of Chlorella sp. and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii algae: Comparison of laser-driven calorimetry with thermogravimetric analysis

May 12, 2021
Author(s)
Cary Presser, Ofra Paz Tal, Tsion Ohaion-Raz, Ana Lerner, Avihai Danon, Barak Dabush, Hadar Dubkin, Ashot Nazarian
… temperature, and results were compared to values published in the literature for different algal species. Laser-driven … 9.6 kJ g-1 for alga CR. The results indicated an endotherm in Stage 1 for both algae due to evaporation of moisture. … Bioresource Technology …

Review of Research on the Fire Behavior of Simple Shear Connections

April 8, 2021
Author(s)
Erica Fischer, Rachel Chicchi, Lisa Choe
… code changes for the design of simple connections in fires. This paper will summarize international … and highlight the inconsistencies between this research in an effort to motivate consistent testing and data … Fire Technology …

Gamma and Decay Energy Spectroscopy Measurements of Trinitite

April 7, 2021
Author(s)
David Mercer, Katrina Koehler, Mark Croce, Andrew Hoover, Philip Hypes, Stosh Kozimor, Veronika Mocko, Paul Saey, Dan Schmidt, Joel Ullom
… and analogous samples obtained from detonation sites in Nevada and Semipalatinsk, as well as in situ measurements of topsoil at the Trinity site. We also … Nuclear Technology …

Water Migration and Swelling in Engineered Barrier Materials for Radioactive Waste Disposal

January 25, 2021
Author(s)
Joanna McFarlane, Lawrence M Anovitz, Michael C. Cheshire, Victoria H. DiStefano, Hassina Z. Bilheux, Jean-Christophe Bilheux, Luke L. Daemen, Richard E. Hale, Ronald L. Howard, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Louis J. Santodonato, Markus Bleuel, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Jacob LaManna, Edmund Perfect, Logan Qualls
… for the dry state. Because the wetting process was modeled in one dimension, intensity profiles were computed by … water uptake exhibited a square root of time dependence in freshly prepared samples, with more variable rates for samples previously in contact with water. The radiography was supported by SANS …

Measuring Water Flow Rate for a Fire Hose Using a Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Fire Fighting

January 2, 2021
Author(s)
Christopher Brown, Gregory Vogl, Wai Cheong Tam
… sensor network was created to measure water-flow rate in a fire hose. An integrated electronic piezoelectric … was applied and used to determine real-time water flow in a fire hose critical for improving fireground situational … to the dominant frequency was established and then used in a custom graphical user interface for quick, real-time, …

Generating Synthetic Sensor Data to Facilitate Machine Learning Paradigm for Prediction of Building Fire Hazard

July 10, 2020
Author(s)
Wai Cheong Tam, Eugene Yujun Fu, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jun Wang, Jiajia Li, Thomas G. Cleary
… to enhance situational awareness for fire fighting in buildings. An automated Fire Data Generator (FD-Gen) is … detectors, and other targets at any arbitrary locations in multi-room compartments with different geometric … prediction of fire location and maintain model accuracy in between 93 % and 96 %. For SVM, it is observed that the …

Thin Filament Pyrometry Field Measurements in a Medium-Scale Pool Fire.

September 13, 2019
Author(s)
Zhigang Wang, Andy Tam, Jian Chen, Ki Y. Lee, Anthony Hamins
… method to characterize the time- varying temperature field in a medium-scale pool fire in a quiescent environment. A digital camera with optical … collected 30 Hz video of the planar filament array. In a separate experiment, a 50 µm diameter thermocouple was … Fire Technology …

Cognitive Biases Within Decision Making During Fire Evacuations

March 8, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Kinsey, Steve Gwynne, Erica D. Kuligowski, Max Kinateder
… involved. This decision-making process is bounded in terms of the information available, the time available, … along with how these align with general decision-making in the process. The purpose of the article is to promote consideration of cognitive biases in the modeling of evacuee behavior, as well as during the …

A Provisional Conceptual Model of Human Behavior in Response to Wildland-Urban Interface Fires

March 6, 2019
Author(s)
Lauren Folk, Erica D. Kuligowski, Steve Gwynne, John Gales
… With more frequent and destructive wildfires occurring in the growing wildland-urban interface (WUI), the ability to … warning and that evacuations often need to take place in a short period of time. The creation of credible and … potentially difficult to represent, a critical component in developing such models is the consideration of what people …

Imaging Through Fire Using Narrow-Spectrum Illumination

July 23, 2018
Author(s)
Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Hoehler
… that allows new opportunities to perform optical metrology in fire research. The method combines narrow-spectrum, blue … the required illumination to detect objects engulfed in flames with this method is reduced by a factor of 10^4. A … demonstrating the ability to take images of objects in natural gas fires up to 1000 kW using 200 W of …

Characteristics of Firebrands Collected from Actual Urban Fires

July 9, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki
… of firebrands collected from a recent urban fire in Japan are described. Specifically, this fire broke out from a Chinese restaurant in Itoigawa-city, Niigata, Japan on December 22nd 2016. On the day of the fire, strong winds resulted in rapid fire spread. With the presence of an average wind …

Under-Reporting of Wildland Fires in NFIRS: California

September 8, 2017
Author(s)
David T. Butry, Douglas S. Thomas
… along with the possibility of inaccurate data entry in current datasets means that some proportion of wildfires … to the community. This paper examines wildfires reported in the NFIRS database and compares it to two other databases … understand the extent of underreporting of wildland fires in the NFIRS system. The paper then discusses a series of …

Intrinsic conductivity, particle shape, and the Coulter particle counting method

September 4, 2017
Author(s)
Edward J. Garboczi
… The Coulter particle counting method has been in use for more than five decades. It records a change in resistance when a particle flows from a large reservoir … of the peak is used as a measure of particle volume. In this paper the Coulter particle counting method is shown …

Neutronics and Safety Studies on a Research Reactor Concept for Advanced Neutron Sources

July 17, 2017
Author(s)
Zeyun NMN Wu, Robert E. Williams, J. Michael Rowe, Thomas Henderson Newton, Sean O'Kelly
… emphasis on high intensity cold neutron sources. A tank-in-pool type reactor with an innovative horizontally split compact core was developed in order to maximize the yield of the thermal flux trap in the reflector area. The reactor was designed with 20 MW …

Cigarette Fires Involving Upholstered Furniture in Residences: The Role that Smokers, Smoker Behavior, and Less-Fire Prone Cigarettes Play

May 1, 2017
Author(s)
David T. Butry, Douglas S. Thomas
… furniture and were a leading cause of fire deaths in residences. The NFPA estimates that 28 % of residential … and they account for 58 % of the residential fire deaths. In recent years, states have adopted less fire-prone … accounting for the under-reporting of fire incidents. In total, four models were estimated using fire department …

Human Response to Emergency Communication: Guidance on alerts and warning messages for emergencies in buildings

April 3, 2017
Author(s)
Hidemi Omori, Erica D. Kuligowski, Steve Gwynne, Kathryn Butler
… response to emergency communication. This guidance can, in turn, help engineers improve the design of emergency … the decision-making process that precedes human response in disaster events, also provides a framework for the … from this literature, and compile the key statements found in the guidance document. Guidance on alerts, visual/audible …
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