Fire Safety of Today's and Tomorrow's Vehicles

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dc.contributor.advisorSunderland, Peter Ben_US
dc.contributor.advisorMilke, James Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorLevy, Kevin Martinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFire Protection Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-07T05:30:35Z
dc.date.available2008-08-07T05:30:35Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-02en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis considers fire hazards in the existing vehicle fleet and uses failure modes and effects analyses of three generic designs to identify and rank potential fire hazards in the Emerging Fuel Vehicle (EFV) fleet. A statistics based predictive quantitative risk assessment framework and estimated uncertainty analysis is presented to predict risk of EFV fleets. The analysis also determines that the frequency of fire occurrence is the greatest factor that contributes to risk of death in fire. These preliminary results predict 420±14 fire related deaths per year for a fleet composed entirely of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, 910±340 for compressed natural gas vehicles, and 1300±570 for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles relative to the statistical record of 350 for traditional fuel vehicles. The results are intended to provide vital fire safety information to the traveling public as well as to emergency response personnel to increase safety when responding to EFV fire hazards.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8311
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTransportationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTransportationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFireen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSafetyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledVehicleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAlternativeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFuelen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHydrogenen_US
dc.titleFire Safety of Today's and Tomorrow's Vehiclesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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