Sodium Fire Code SFIRE1C for Pool Fire Characteristics

Rendering of Pool Fire Data

Demographic characteristics, fire experiences, and distress of residential fire survivors.

The United States has one of the highest per capita fire death rates in the world. Death rates alone, however, fail to reflect the breadth of loss experienced by residential fire survivors. Despite the frequency of home fires and the potential for loss, little is known about this vulnerable population. Interviews were conducted with 440 fire survivors 14 weeks after fires. Demographic character...

A stereovision system for fire characteristics estimation

This paper presents a stereovision system for the measurement of forest fire spread characteristics. Images of the scene are captured by a pre-calibrated stereo camera. A new approach is introduced in order to capture a three dimensional flame structure and to estimate important characteristics of this phenomenon like position and rate of spread of the fire front, height, length, inclination an...

Role of Fire Field Models as a Design Tool for Performance- Based Fire-code Implementation

The worldwide movement from prescription-based to performance-based fire codes is unmistakable and irreversible. In the implementation of such performance-based fire codes, both basic and innovative engineering design tools are needed to analyze potential fire scenarios for relative fire hazards and risk assessment. Among such innovative design tools are fire models, particularly the fire field...

Fight fire with fire

Since our hunter–gatherer ancestors began to develop agriculture more than 10,000 years ago, farmers have been battling with Nature to protect their cultivated plants against pests and diseases. Organisms from all kingdoms of life—from mammals and insects to bacteria, fungi and viruses—are attracted by the easy pickings that large fields of plants represent, and farmers have sought to contain t...