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Performance of Home Smoke Alarms, Analysis of the Response of Several Available Technologies in Residential Fire Settings.

December 1, 2003
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Thomas G. Cleary, Nelson P. Bryner, Paul A. Reneke
This report presents the results of the project and provides details of the response of a range of residential smoke alarm technologies in a controlled laboratory test and in a series of real-scale tests conducted in two different residential structures

Defining Flashover for Fire Hazard Calculations: Part II

November 1, 2003
Author(s)
V Babrauskas, Richard Peacock
Comparison of available correlations and predictive models used to predict the minimum energy necessary to cause flashover show consistent estimates for a range of empirical data. Still, available experimental data show a wide range of heat release rates

Smoke Component Yields From Room-Scale Fire Tests (NIST TN 1453)

April 1, 2003
Author(s)
Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, Erik L. Johnsson, Marc R. Nyden, Richard D. Peacock
This report presents the methodology for and results from a series of room-scale fire tests to produce data on the yields of toxic products in both pre-flashover and post-flashover fires. The combustibles examined were: a sofa made of upholstered cushions

Fire Safety of Passenger Trains, Phase II: Application of Fire Hazard Analysis Techniques

December 1, 2002
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jason D. Averill, Richard W. Bukowski, J H. Klote
As part of the passenger equipment rulemaking required by Congress, the Federal Railroad Adminstration (FRA) has issued new requirements making its existing fire safety guidelines mandatory. Part of this fire safety rule requires fire hazard analyses for

Home Smoke Alarm Tests, Test Series 2, Report of Test 4017

May 10, 2002
Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Richard D. Peacock, Richard W. Bukowski, Paul A. Reneke
This Report of Test documents the second series of full scale tests conducted as part of research into the performance of smoke alarms. The first series of tests, conducted in a manufactured home, consisted of fifteen experiments with instrumentation

International Study of the Sublethal Effects of Fire Smoke on Survivability and Health (SEFS): Phase 1. Final Report (NIST TN 1439)

August 1, 2001
Author(s)
Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, Kathryn M. Butler, Walter W. Jones, George W. Mulholland, J L. Neviaser, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, J R. Hall
Fire smoke toxicity has been a recurring theme for fire safety professionals for over four decades. There especially continue to be difficulty and controversy in assessing and addressing the contribution of the sublethal effects of smoke in hazard and risk

Sublethal Effects of Smoke on Survival and Health

March 26, 2001
Author(s)
Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, Kathryn M. Butler, Walter W. Jones, George W. Mulholland, J L. Neviaser, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, J R. Hall

A User's Guide for FAST: Engineering Tools for Estimating Fire Growth and Smoke Transport

January 3, 2000
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Walter W. Jones, Richard W. Bukowski, Glenn P. Forney
FAST is a collection of fire modeling tools which uses the underlying fire model CFAST and adds the routines of FIREFORM to provide engineering calculations of fire phenomena in compartmented structures. This manual provides documentation and examples for

Development of a Hazard-Based Method for Evaluating the Fire Safety of Passenger Trains

June 29, 1999
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Jason D. Averill, S. H. Markos
The fire safety of U.S. passenger rail trains currently is addressed through small-scale flammability and smoke emission tests and performance criteria promulgated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The FRA approach relies heavily on test

Defining Flashover for Fire Hazard Calculations

June 1, 1999
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, Richard W. Bukowski, Vyto Babrauskas
As the use of performance-based methods for evaluating the fire behavior of materials and systems becomes more widespread, objective criteria to judge fire behavior become more important. This paper reviews techniques for predicting the most common of

Evaluation of Passenger Train Car Materials in the Cone Calorimeter

February 23, 1999
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Richard W. Bukowski, S. H. Markos
Recent advances in fire test methods and hazard analysis techniques make it useful to re-examine passenger train fire safety requirements. The use of test methods based on heat release rate (HRR), incorporated with fire modeling and hazard analysis, could

Evaluation of Passenger Train Car Materials in the Cone Calorimeter

February 23, 1999
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Richard W. Bukowski, S. H. Markos
Recent advances in fire test methods and hazard analysis techniques make it useful to re-examine passenger train fire safety requirements. The use of test methods based on heat release rate (HRR), incorporated with fire modeling and hazard analysis, could

Quantifying Fire Model Evaluation Using Functional Analysis

January 1, 1999
Author(s)
Richard D. Peacock, Paul A. Reneke, William D. Davis, Walter W. Jones
Comparisons of predictive fire models with each other or with experimental data have been largely qualitative. By treating these time series curves as infinite-dimensional vectors, a branch of mathematics called functional analysis defines geometrically

Sensitivity Examination of the airEXODUS Aircraft Evacuation Simulation Model

November 16, 1998
Author(s)
Richard W. Bukowski, Richard D. Peacock, Walter W. Jones
The Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been a leader in the development, application and evaluation of models for the simulation of fires and the associated hazards and risk to people