Measurement of Heat Transfer and Fire Damage Patterns on Walls for Fire Model Validation, Ammendale, Maryland, 2021-2023 (ICPSR 39217)
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Matthew J. DiDomizio, Fire Safety Research Institute
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Fire investigators and researchers leverage fire models to predict fire growth and fire pattern development. These fire models incorporate simplifying assumptions in their representation of heat transfer through walls, but the impact of these assumptions on model predictions of fire exposures and fire damage patterns is not well understood. Experiments were conducted in which freestanding walls were subjected to exposure from controlled fire sources, including gas burners, liquid fuels, and furnishings. Experiments were conducted at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Fire Research Laboratory (ATF-FRL) in Maryland. The experiments addressed three validation spaces: field heat flux from a fire to a wall, heat transfer through fire-exposed walls, and fire damage patterns arising on fire-exposed walls.
The data acquired from these experiments are available in a public repository.