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Search Publications by: Kevin B. McGrattan (Fed)

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A Simple Model of Thermally-Induced Electrical Cable Failure

April 2, 2008
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Kristopher Overholt
A simple thermal model to predict the failure of electrical power, instrument, and control cables is described. The model is intended as a subroutine for deterministic fire models, and it is of comparable accuracy and simplicity to the activation

Recent Advances in Fire-Structure Analysis

February 1, 2008
Author(s)
Dat Duthinh, Kevin B. McGrattan, Abed M. Khaskia
One of the recommendations of the National Construction Safety Team for the Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1, 2005) is to enhance the capability of available computational software to predict

Verification and Validation--How to Determine the Accuracy of Fire Models.

March 1, 2007
Author(s)
Mark H. Salley, Jason Dreisbach, Kendra Hill, Bijan Najafi, Francisco Joglar, Anthony Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Richard Peacock, Robert Kassawara
Both domestically and worldwide, there is a movement to introduce risk-informed and performance-based analyses into fire protection engineering practice. One key tool needed to support risk-informed, performance-based (RI/PB) fire protection is fire models

Fire Dynamics Simulator (Version 4) - Technical Reference Guide

March 1, 2006
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software described in this document solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow with an

Numerical Simulation of the Caldecott Tunnel Fire, April 1982

December 1, 2005
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan
This report documents a study undertaken to estimate the thermal environment of the Caldecott Tunnel during a gasoline spill fire in April 1982. A numerical fire model developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been used to

Experiments and Modeling of Unprotected Structural Steel Elements Exposed to a Fire

September 18, 2005
Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Kevin B. McGrattan, Kuldeep R. Prasad, Alexander Maranghides, Therese P. McAllister
A large-scale fire experiment was conducted to assess the accuracy of a combination of gas and solid-phase models designed to predict the temperatures of structural steel elements exposed to a fire. The experiment involved a 2 MW heptane spray fire in a

Computer Simulation of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-5F) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Kevin B. McGrattan, Charles E. Bouldin, Glenn P. Forney
This report presents the results of numerical simulations of the fires in World Trade Center (WTC) 1 and WTC 2 on September 11, 2001. The calculations were performed with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fire Dynamics Simulator, a

Experiments and Modeling of Multiple Workstations Burning in a Compartment. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1-5E) ***DRAFT for Public Comments***

September 1, 2005
Author(s)
Anthony P. Hamins, Alexander Maranghides, Kevin B. McGrattan, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Robert Anleitner
A series of large-scale experiments were conducted in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Large Fire Laboratory from November 4 to December 10, 2003, to assess the accuracy with which the NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) predicts