• Quantification of Flame Heat Feedback in Cone Calorimetry Tests 

  Tilles, Jessica (2017)

  In order to understand material flammability, accurate pyrolysis models must be developed. Understanding flame heat feedback is essential in developing accurate pyrolysis models. The most widely used standard to quantitatively ...

• Thermal Characterization of Firebrand Piles 

  Hakes, Raquel Sara Pilar (2017)

  Over the past several decades, the severity of wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires has increased drastically, resulting in thousands of structures lost globally each year. The cause of the majority of structure losses is ...

• Study of the Fidelity and Safety of the Fire Service Training Environement 

  Regan, John William (2017)

  Recent firefighter line of duty deaths as a result of rapid fire progression have highlighted that there is a deficiency in firefighters’ understanding of the fire dynamics created by modern, synthetic fuels on the ...

• Analysis of Propane Gas Fire Experiments and Simulations in Residential Scale Structures 

  Willi, Joseph (2017)

  Nine full-scale fire experiments were conducted in two residential-sized structures with a fire source provided by three propane gas burners. Five of the experiments were conducted in a single-story structure, and four ...

• Identification of Precursor Signals to Impending Cooking Related Fires 

  Zevotek, Robin (2015)

  Cooking related fires continue to be the leading cause of fires in homes. In an effort to reduce the number of cooking fires Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and the University of Maryland (UMD) partnered to evaluate detection ...

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