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BFRL Goal
Innovative Fire Protection Technologies
To enable engineered fire safety for people, products, and facilities; and enhance fire fighter effectiveness.
U.S. annual losses attributable to fire -- 3600 lives, 22 000 serious injuries, $10 billion in direct property loss, and $128 billion total cost.
Core research to significantly reduce fire loss is organized around four technical programs:
Advanced Fire Service Technologies Program -- Enabling a shift to an information rich environment for safer and more effective fire service operations through new technology, measurement standards, and training tools.
Reduced Risk of Fire Spread Program-- Developing effective strategies for cost-effectively reducing the Nation’s fire losses (both human and financial) by limiting fire growth and spread in and to residences.
Advanced Measurement and Predictive Methods -- Providing the fundamental knowledge, algorithms, and measurement techniques necessary for advancing engineered fire safety for people, products, facilities, and first responders.
Component Programs:
Contact:
William L. Grosshandler, Chief Fire Research Division
(301) 975-2310
(301) 975-4052 (fax)
email: william.grosshandler@nist.gov
Experiments characterizing PPV fan flow (a) and corresponding model simulations using
FDS / Smokeview (b).
Methane-fired panel which creates a flux gradient for flame spread test of extruded flame retardant polymer sample rods.
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Last updated: 1/15/2008