Fire Protection Technologies Portal

The total cost of fire in the United States in 2008, as defined by NFPA, is estimated at $362 B, or roughly 2.5% of U.S. gross domestic … more

This project will develop the tools, safety systems, protective measures, and design reaction frames needed to conduct real-scale experiments in … more

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is defined as a location where structures meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. Since 2000 in … more

Within the Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program at NIST, projects seek (through laboratory experiments, field measurements, and computer … more

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire problem is a structure ignition problem. To reduce the risk of structural ignition, the technical basis … more

Current test methods and standards do not fully characterize the performance of fire fighter equipment in high temperature, rough duty … more

The National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) is adding a unique facility that will serve as a center of excellence for fire performance of … more

The fire emulator/detector evaluator (FE/DE) is a computer-controlled flow tunnel used to re-create the environments surrounding detectors in the … more

As the federal government's principal fire research laboratory, EL maintains some of the country's best and most extensive fire testing … more

This apparatus, developed at EL, determines gasification rate (mass loss rate) of a horizontally oriented specimen exposed in a nitrogen … more

This apparatus, developed at EL, determines material properties related to piloted ignition of a vertically oriented sample under constant and … more

  Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically … more

The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects … more

Sprinkler Use Decisioning is a Web-tool designed to facilitate economic analysis of residential fire sprinklers at the homeowner-and … more

Turnout Gear Selector (ToGS) helps the manufacturers, purchasers and users of fire turnout gear evaluate and select the turnout coat and pants … more