Fire Protection Engineering Theses and Dissertations

• Feasibility Analysis of Coupling FDS Modeling with Machine Learning for Situational Awareness in Aircraft Hangars 

  Davis, Alison Marie (2022)

  Situational awareness is a critical factor in maintaining the safety of firefighters and can be largely improved in buildings using distributed sensors that provide real-time data. A two-phase approach is used to increase ...

• Influence of the Air Gap in Firefighter Personal Protective Equipment on Skin Temperature in Pre-Flashover Thermal Exposures 

  Ahmad, Shaheer (2022)

  Exposure to pre-flashover thermal conditions is typically considered as routine for many structural firefighters, and these low level thermal exposures pose a threat of burn injury. Skin burns occur as a result of prolonged ...

• DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PIXEL-BY-PIXEL PYROMETRY METHODS ON SMOLDERING WOOD EMBERS AND PILES 

  Tlemsani, Mahdi (2022)

  Wildfire, especially along the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), presents a large threatto life and property globally. Firebrands can increase the size and spread of wildfires rapidly. More than half of spot fires and WUI ...

• IDENTIFYING SMOKE DETECTION BIASES WITHIN DIFFERING ROOM CONFIGURATIONS FOR ZONE AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC MODELS 

  Lee, Adam (2022)

  This research project aims to identify room configuration conditions in which FDS, a CFD model, and CFAST, a zone model, may differ in detector activation time. A total of four configurations, with varying aspect ratios, ...

• Predicting the Temperature Increase of Residential Siding and Decking Materials in the WUI Due to External Heat Flux 

  Harris, Matthew (2022)

  The wildland urban interface (WUI), which is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation, has more than doubled over the last 50 years. The frequency and intensity of wildfires occurring ...

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