Fire on the Web
Fire on the Web is a collection of resources from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory's Fire Research Division at NIST. These Web pages provide links to fire related software, experimental fire data and mpeg/quick time movies of fire tests that can be downloaded and/or viewed with a Web browser.
Fire Tests/Data
- Fire Experiment Results - a collection of actual test data for a range of commodities which may be found in residential and commercial applications. These data include video and still pictures of the fires, graphs of important measurements made during the testing, and data which can be downloaded to run with the FAST or FASTLite software to simulate these burning items.
- Diffusion Flame Measurements - Profile data are presented here to aid research on the chemical structure of laminar, hydrocarbon diffusion flames - both for comparisons with other experimental results as well as for evaluating the predictions of flame models. Specifically, measurements made at NIST during the period 1984-1998 of species concentrations (mole fraction), temperatures (K), and velocities (cm/s) are included for two diffusion flame systems.
- FASTData - FASTData is a collection over 450 tests ranging from cone calorimeter tests of single materials and assemblies to real-scale tests of single- and multiple-compartment configurations. Plots of data include focus on heat release rate, but additional plots including temperatures, species concentration, mass loss, and flows are included for some tests.
- Industrial Sponsored Fire Test Data - As a service to the fire safety community the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is making available reports and data that have been donated to NIST by the sponsoring organizations for wide spread use. The contributions of these organizations to help advance fire safety are gratefully acknowledged.
- Residential Fire Sprinklers - Two tests are presented that demonstrate how a fire is affected by a sprinkler.
- Residential Smoke Alarms - In cooperation with the United States Fire Administration, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and other sponsors,, NIST has evaluated current and emerging smoke alarm technology responses to common residential fire scenarios and nuisance alarm sources. Data for more than 30 real-scale tests are available and include the time varying concentrations of CO, CO2, and O2, smoke obscuration, and temperature at multiple locations in the structure. The response of numerous smoke alarms place throughout the structures are also included.
- Passenger Trains - The Fire Research Division has been involved in research related to passenger train fire safety since the 1970's. The results of these research studies are summarized here. The complete reports are available as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
- Fire Fighting Agents - Fire experiment comparing treated and untreated vinyl siding.
- Wildland-Urban Interface and Wildland Fires - An overview of ongoing work in the areas of wildland-urban interface and wildland fires.
Software/Models
- NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview - FDS is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. Smokeview is a visualization program that is used to display the results of an FDS simulation.
- ALOFT-FT - is a smoke plume trajectory model for personal computers.
- CFAST/FAST (and FASTLite) - CFAST is a zone model that predicts the effect of a specified fire on temperatures, various gas concentrations and smoke layer heights in a multi-compartment structure. FAST and FASTLite are graphical user interfaces (GUI) for the computational model (CFAST). They include the FIREFORM tools package. FASTlite is no longer distributed. The complete functionality of FASTLite is included in the FAST package.
- Fire Modeling Software Online - A collection of fire related software developed by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory available for free download.
- ToGS - Turnout Gear Selector (ToGS) helps the manufacturers, purchasers and users of fire turnout gear evaluate and select the turnout coat and pants ensemble that best meets their needs.
Other
- Holiday Fire Safety - Trees used indoors for the holidays account for approximately 400 fires annually, resulting in 10 deaths, 80 injuries and more than $15 million in property damage. This video demonstrates the how quickly the fire can develop when a DRY tree is exposed to an open flame.
- Fire Research Division - The Fire Research Division develops, verifies, and utilizes measurements and predictive methods to quantify the behavior of fire and the means to reduce the impact of fire on people, property, and the environment.
- Research Information Services (RIS) - 60,000 document collection searchable through FIREDOC is accessible via the Web.
- Fire.Gov - On-line newsletter for the Fire Services.
- FABERC - The Fire and Building Educational Resource Collection (FABERC) provides access to multimedia – including video clips, images, reports, and, experiment data – from a variety of sources.
- Other NIST fire resources can be found by browsing from BFRL's home page
Events
- MARCH 31 - APRIL 2, 2008 -
2008 Annual Fire Conference will be held March 31 - April 2, 2008 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. NIST staff, grantees, experts from federal agencies, representatives of code developing organizations, fire and building professionals, and experts from academia and industry are invited to attend. The Conference will be held on the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Registration, hotel, and other information will be available on the Conference homepage (http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/info/fireconf/).
- APRIL 1-3, 2008 - Rethinking Egress Workshop will be held April 1-3, 2008 in Gaithersburg, MD and can be accessed on the web via an audio and video webcast. The proceedings and results of the workshop will be broadly published for public consideration. Further, a follow-up workshop will be convened to consider how to implement those ideas which may have significant potential. Anyone interested in taking part in this second workshop is invited to contact NIST at egress@nist.gov.
Publications Information
- BFRL Publications Online - A collection of recent publications (since 1993) available for free download published by and for BFRL staff.
- Factsheets - providing fire safety information especially for people living in manufactured housing.
- FIREDOC - a web searchable database of publications in the Fire Research Information Service at BFRL
Recent Publications
- Experimental Study of the Effects of Fuel Type, Fuel Distributions, and Vent Size on Full-Scale Underventilated Compartment Fires in an ISO 9705 Room (NIST TN 1603), October 2008
- A Computational Model for Fire Growth and Spread On Thermoplastic Objects, November 2007 (NIST GCR 07-914)
- Benefit-Cost Analysis of Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems, October 2007 (NIST IR 7451)
- Measurements of Heat and Combustion Products in Reduced-Scale Ventilation-Limited Compartment Fires, July 2007 (NIST TN 1483)
- Ignition of Cellulosic Fuels by Heated and Radiative Surfaces, March 2007 (NIST TN 1481)
- Accounting for Emergency Response in Building Evacuation: Modeling Differential Egress Capacity Solutions, April, 2007 (NIST IR 7425)
Publications
Available on CD
- Cook County Administration Building Fire, 69 W Washington, Chicago, IL. October 17th, 2003: Heat Release Rate Experiments and FDS Simulations. September 2004 (NIST-SP 1021)
- Report on the Simulation of the Dynamics of the Fire at 3146 Cherry Road NE Washington D.C., May 30, 1999
- Simulation of the Dynamics of a Fire in a Two-Story duplex - Iowa, December 22, 1999 (NSTIR 6854)
- Extended Abstracts and Presentations from the Workshop on Fire Growth and Spread on Objects, March 4-6, 2002
(NIST SP 998, May 2003)To obtain a copy of CD Publication, contact Nelson Bryner, nelson.bryner@nist.gov
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Other fire related resources
- American Fire Sprinkler Association
- Fire Protection Engineering School, Univ. of Maryland
- Firenet
- Fire Safety Engineering Group, Univ. of Greenwich
- (SFPE)
- The National Association of State Fire Marshals
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- National Fire Protection Research Foundation
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers
- University of Manchester Structural Fire Engineering
- U.S. Fire Administration
- Western Fire Center
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Center for Firesafety Studies & FPE Graduate Program
- The University of New Haven
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Last updated: 10/9/2008