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Alexander Maranghides, Eric D. Link, Christopher U. Brown, William Mell, Steven Hawks, Mike Wilson, Will Brewer, Robert Vihnanek, William D. Walton
The Camp Fire ignited on November 8, 2018 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Butte County, California. The first 24 hours were characterized by a fast
Wind plays an important role in the built environment. Large outdoor fires in the built environment are no exception. Under strong wind, firebrands fly far
Yue Hu, Jian Chen, Zhigang Wang, Ki Yong Lee, Matthew F. Bundy, Anthony Hamins, Marco G. Fernandez
A series of experiments was conducted to investigate the pre-combustion and combustion properties of corn oil heated in pans from 10 cm to 26 cm diameter by a
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Sara McAllister, Brian Lattimer, Daniel Gorham, Alexander Filkov, Maria Theodori, Xinyan Huang
Two virtual workshops of the permanent working group, sponsored by the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), entitled Large Outdoor Fires
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
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
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
Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew F. Bundy, Anthony P. 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
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
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
A simple laboratory-scale experimental method was developed to study firebrand generation processes. As part of these experiments, Japanese wind facilities were
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
Bruno Hay, Robert R. Zarr, Clark Stacey, Nikolay Sokolov, Leonel Lira Cortes, Ulf Hammerschmidt, Jintao Zhang, Jean Remy Filtz, Fleurence N.
Seven National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) from France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Mexico, China and Germany participated in an inter-laboratory
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
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
As part of recent building code change discussions, it has been suggested that by increasing the spacing of boards, it may be possible to mitigate ignition of
Chao Zhang, William L. Grosshandler, Ana Sauca, Lisa Y. Choe
This paper presents a basis for designing the ASTM E119 fire environment in a large compartment of about 10 m wide, 7 m deep and 3.8 m high constructed in the
Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, William L. Grosshandler, Matthew F. Bundy, Lisa Y. Choe
This report presents the experimental investigation of a test fire in a large compartment of about 10 m wide, 7 m deep and 3.8 m high constructed in the
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Michael Gollner, A C. Fernandez-Pello
Large outdoor fires are an increasing danger to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into com- munities, labeled as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires
Zhigang Wang, Wai Cheong Tam, Jian Chen, Ki Y. Lee, Anthony P. Hamins
This paper presents the development of a thin filament pyrometry method to characterize the time- varying temperature field in a medium-scale pool fire in a