FIRE TECHNOLOGY

Publications/Presentations

Measurement of Uncertainties. A.B. Wenzel. Workshop on Fire Testing Measurement Needs. Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, June 18-19, 2001.

Capabilities of Southwest Research Institute's Department of Fire Technology, A.L. Orvis. Presented at the U.S. Navy Center of Excellence for Composites Manufacturing Third Fire Performance of Composites Materials Workshop, March 22, 2001, Arlington, VA, Structural Composites, Inc.

Gas Sampling and Analysis by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Fire and Materials 2001. A.L. Orvis and S.R. Allwein. Presented at 7th International Conference, January 22-24, 2001. San Francisco, CA, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 443-445, 2001.

Burning Characteristics of Heptane and Methanol Pool Fires, Fire and Materals 2001. M.L. Janssens, S.E. Dillon and S.R. Allwein. Presented at 7th International Conference, January 22-24, 2001, San Francisco, CA, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 517-526, 2001.

Using the Cone Calorimeter to Assess Combustibility of Building Products. A.B. Wenzel and M.L. Janssens. Forum 2000 Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, October 22-28, 2000.

An Overview of Commercial Fire RDT&E Areas and Their Potential for Military Applications. A.B. Wenzel. Fire RDT&E Strategy Meeting, Wright-Patterson AFB, October 4, 2000.

Balanced Approach to the Fire Performance of Interior Finish Materials, M.L. Janssens and S.E. Dillon, 15th Meeting of the US-Japan Panel on Fire Research and Safety, San Antonio, TX, March 1-7, 2000.

Testing and Certification Services Offered by the Department of Fire Technology. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Steel Tank Institute's 2000: Winter Meeting, Cancún, Mexico, January 31, 2000.

Testing and Certification Services Offered by the Department of Fire Technology. G.M. (Finley) Miller. Presented at 8th Annual Building Professional Institute Conference, Arlington, Texas, January 10-11, 2000.

Computer Fire Model Selection and Data Sources. M.L. Janssens. Presented at ASTM=s Role in Performance-Based Fire Codes and Standards, December 8, 1998, Nashville, Tennessee; in: ASTM STP 1377, Hall, J., Editor, ASTM, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, pp. 74-86, 1999.

Fire Test Procedures of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). M.L. Janssens.  Presented at Research Review Session, ASTM E-5 Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 6, 1999.

Requirements for Shop-Fabricated Aboveground Storage Tanks in the Continental United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Aboveground Storage Tank Symposium, Puerto Rico, November 3, 1999.

Blowdown Characterization of a High-Pressure Silane-Hydrogen Mixture for the Hyper-X Research. R.E. White, E.A. Calleja, and A. Castrogiovanni.  Presented at 36^th JANNAF CS/APS/PSHS Joint Meeting, Cocoa Beach Florida, October 18-22, 1999.

Combustion Characteristics of Crude Oils. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at the Third International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, October 4-8, 1999.

Flamespread Model Progress: Enhancements & User Interface, M. Spearpoint S.E. Dillon. Submitted to: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, October 1999.

Forum for International Cooperation on Fire Research. A.B. Wenzel. Presented at FORUM for International Cooperation on Fire Research: 1999 Annual Meeting, Fire Research Station, Garston, Watford, United Kingdom, September 21-24, 1999.

The Status of the Aboveground Storage Tank Industry in the United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico City, Mexico, July 13, 1999.

Methods for Evaluating Fires and Explosions of Offshore and Onshore Upstream Production Systems. A.B. Wenzel, R.E. White, J.E. Johnson. Presented at 18th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, July 11-16, 1999, St. John's, Newfoundland.

Discussion of a Model and Correlation for the ISO 9705 Room-Corner Test. S.E. Dillon. J.G. Quintiere and W.H. Kim. Proceedings of the IAFSS Conference, July 1999, Poitier, France.

Discussion of a Model and Correlations for the ISO 9705 Room-Corner Test. S.E. Dillon.  In:  6^th International Symposium for Fire Safety Science, Poitiers, France, July 5-9, 1999 (in press).

Comparison Between High Speed Craft and Other Solas-Complying Ships of Fire Test Requirements for Lining Materials. M.L. Janssens, A.S. Garabedian, W. Gray, A.L. Orvis, A. Grenier, and L. Nash. Presented at Interflam >99: 8^th International Fire Conference, June 29-July 1, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland; in:  Interscience Communications Ltd., Franks, C. and Grayson, S., Editors, London, England, Vol. 1, pp. 343-353, 1999.

Testing and Certification Requirements for Aboveground Storage Tanks. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Aboveground Storage Tank Symposium, Atlanta Fire Department, Atlanta, Georgia, May 17, 1999.

Regulations Affecting Shop-Fabricated Aboveground Storage Tanks in the United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller. Presented at City of Leon Valley Fire Department, San Antonio, Texas, May 4, 1999.

Room Fire TestingBRecent Experiences and Implications. M.L. Janssens, G.M. (Finley) Miller, and M. Hirschler. Fire and Materials >99.  Presented at 6^th International Conference and Exhibition, February 22-23, 1999, San Antonio;  in:  Texas, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 83-94, 1999.

Trends in Evaluating Toxicity of Fire Effluents, Fire and Materials >99. M.L. Janssens and A.L. Orvis.  Presented at 6^th International Conference and Exhibition, February 22-23, 1999, San Antonio, TX, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 95-106, 1999.

Smoke Obscuration Measurements in the NFPA 265 Room-corner Test. M.L. Janssens and M. Hirschler.  Presented at Fire and Materials >99: 6^th International Conference and Exhibition, February 22-23, 1999, San Antonio, Texas;  in:  Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 179-198, 1999.

Room Fire Testing - Recent Experiences and Implications. G.M. (Finley) Miller, M.L. Janssens, and M.M. Hirschler.  Presented at 6th International Fire and Materials Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, February 22 - 23, 1999.

Developing Cone Calorimeter Acceptance Criteria for Materials Used in High Speed Craft. M.L. Janssens, A. Grenier, and L. Nash. Presented at Fire and Materials >99: 6^th International Conference and Exhibition, February 22-23, 1999, San Antonio, Texas; in: Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 107-116, 1999.

Status of Requirements for Listing and Labeling Program for Aboveground Storage Tanks. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at ITEQ Storage Systems Licensee Meeting, Columbus, Georgia, February 18, 1999.

Review of the Fire Performance of Floor Coverings. S.E. Dillon.  6^th International Fire and Materials Conference, Cowles, G.S. Author San Antonio, Texas, February 1999.

Application of FTIR Spectroscopy for Toxicity Analysis of Fire Effluents. A.L. Orvis. Presented at and in proceedings of the International Federation of Process Analytical Chemists, San Antonio, Texas, January 24, 1999.

Heat and Smoke Measurements of Construction Materials Tested in a Room-Corner Configuration According to NFPA 265. M.L. Janssens, and M. Hirschler. Presented at 27^th International Conference on Fire Safety, Millbrae, California, January 11-15, 1999, Product Safety Corporation, Sunnyvale, California.

Testing and Certification Requirements for Shop-Fabricated Aboveground Storage Tanks for Flammable Liquids. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at 27th International Conference on Fire Safety, Millbrae, California, January 11-15, 1999.

Test Protocols for Aboveground Storage Tanks in the United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Steel Tank Institute's 1999 Winter Meeting, Grand Cayman, January 9, 1999.

Testing and Certification Requirements for Aboveground Storage Tanks. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Tennessee Fire Safety Inspectors Association's Annual Conference, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, November 4 - 5, 1998.

Establishment of Cone Calorimeter Acceptance Criteria for Evaluation of Fire Restricting Materials for High Speed Craft. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at NIST Annual Conference on Fire Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2-5, 1998.

Wall and Ceiling Heat Flux Measurements in a Room-Corner Test. S.E. Dillon.  Presented at National Institute of Standards and Technology: Annual Conference on Fire Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1998.

Discussion of a Model and Correlation for the ISO 9705 Room-Corner Test. S.E. Dillon.  Presented at National Institute of Standards and Technology: Annual Conference on Fire Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1998.

Pipeline Purging Principles and Practice. J.E. Johnson, S.J. Svedemon, C.A. Kuhl, J.G. Gregor, and A.K. Lombeth.  Transactions of the ASME Volume 120 page 249 Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, November 1998.

Fire Research Program at Southwest Research Institute. A.B. Wenzel.  Presented at International Harmonization of Performance-Based on Fire Safety Symposium: FORUM for International Cooperation on Fire Research, 1998 Annual Meeting, Gaithersburg, Maryland, October 5-6, 1998.

Quantification of Evolved Smoke Gases in the Infrared. A.L. Orvis. Presented at University of Texas Department of Physics, Austin, Texas, August 1998.

Analysis of the ISO 9705 Room-Corner Test: Simulations, Correlations and Heat Flux Measurements. S.E. Dillon. Presented at NIST GCR 98-756: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, August 1998.

Southwest Research Institute Experience in Jet Fire Testing. A.B. Wenzel.  Presented at Jet Fire Workshop: 17^th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics (OMAE) >98, Lisbon, Portugal, June 5-9, 1998.

Determination of Properties and the Prediction of the Energy Release Rate of Materials in the ISO 9705 Room-Corner Test. Dillon, S. E., W.H. Kim, and J.G. Quintiere. Presented at NIST-GCR-98-753: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, June, 1998.

Development of Cone Calorimeter Acceptance Criteria for Composite Fire Restricting Materials Used on High Speed Craft. M.L. Janssens. Presented at Fourteenth Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research, Tsukuba and Mitaka, Japan, May 28-June 3, 1998.

Performance-Based Fire Tests of Materials - US Overview. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at Fourteenth Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research, Tsukuba and Mitaka, Japan, May 28-June 3, 1998.

Fire Testing and Computer Modeling at Southwest Research Institute. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at ARL PET IMT Workshop, Aberdeen, Maryland, May 20-21, 1998.

Fire Testing at Southwest Research Institute. A.B. Wenzel.  Presented at NFPA: 1998 Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17-21, 1998.

Establishment of Cone Calorimeter Acceptance Criteria for Evaluation of Fire Restricting Materials for High Speed Craft. M.L. Janssens. Presented at Symposium on Computational and Experimental Methods in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering, University of Ghent, Belgium, May 8, 1998.

Certification and Testing of Aboveground Storage Tanks. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at the Aboveground Storage Tank Symposium, sponsored by the Atlanta Fire Department, Atlanta, Georgia, May 11-15, 1998.

Test Procedures for Evaluating Fire Performance of Advanced Composites. A.B. Wenzel and M.L. Janssens.  Presented at 5th Arab International Conference on Materials Science (Materials and Fire), Alexandria, Egypt, March 23-25, 1998.

A Comparison Between the European SBI Test and Reaction-to-Fire Test Methods in North America. A.B. Wenzel, M.L. Janssens, and T. Bankler. Presented at Fire and Materials >98: 5th International Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, February 23-24, 1998.

Comparison of the European SBI Test and Reaction-to-Fire Tests in North America. M.L. Janssens, T. Bankler, and A.B. Wenzel.  Presented at Fire and Materials >98: 5^th International Conference and Exhibition, February 23-24, 1998, San Antonio, Texas; in:  Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 99-110, 1998.

Comparison of Test Protocols for Standard Room/Corner Tests. M.L. Janssens, R.E. White, M. Dietenberger, H. Tran, O. Grexa, L. Richardson, and K. Sumathipala. Presented at Fire and Materials >98: 5^th International Conference and Exhibition, February 23-24, 1998, San Antonio, Texas; in:  Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, pp. 77-88, 1998.

Polymer Surface Interactions: Applications of Scanning Tunneling spectroscopy and Raman Imaging. A.L. Orvis and J.F. Maguire.  Presented at ASME, Dallas Texas, November 16, 1997.

Status of the Aboveground Storage Tank Industry in the United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Occupational Safety and Health: Dangerous Goods Division, Auckland, New Zealand, October 30, 1997.

Tests and Regulations Applicable to Aboveground Storage Tanks in the United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Occupational Safety and Health, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 29, 1997.

Test Procedures for Evaluating Fire Performance of Composites for Offshore and Marine Applications, A.B. Wenzel and M. L. Janssens.  Presented at Second International Conference on Composite Materials for Offshore Operations, Houston, Texas, October 28-30, 1997.

Test Procedures for Evaluating Fire Performance of Composites for Offshore and Marine Applications. M.L. Janssens, A.B. Wenzel, S. Wang, J. Williams, and K., Lo, Editors. American Bureau of Shipping, pp. 635-652, 1999; presented at Composite Materials for Offshore Operations-2, Houston, Texas, October 28-30, 1997.

Testing Requirements for Aboveground Storage Tanks in the United States. G.M. (Finley) Miller.  Presented at Society of Fire Protection Engineers: Christchurch Chapter, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, October 27, 1997.

Aboveground Fuel Tanks. A.B. Wenzel. Presented at Pemex Seminar, Mexico City, Mexico, October 24, 1997.

ISO 5660: A Performance-Based Approach to Fire Testing. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at Second International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering, Gaithersburg, Maryland, August 2-5, 1997.

Modeling Heat Transfer Through Light Steel Frame Walls Using the SAFIR Model. S.E. Dillon and J. Milke.  Presented at Second International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering, Gaithersburg, Maryland, August 1997.

A Laboratory-Scale Jet Fire Procedure to Evaluate High-Temperature Protective Materials for Offshore Installation. A.B. Wenzel. Presented at Fourth International Conference on Composites Engineering, Big Island, Hawaii, July 6-12, 1997.

Processing of Soft Matter and Composites: Integration of Materials Sensors with Process Models and Intelligent Control Algorithms. A.L. Orvis, J.F. Maguire, A.M. Miller. Invited Presentation: Australia-Pacific Forum on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Australia, July 1997.

Fire Performance of Facades and the Effect of Scale. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at ASTM E-5 Symposium on Very Large Scale Fires, St. Louis, Missouri, June 16, 1997.

Simulation of Very Large Scale Hydrocarbon Fire Hazards for Offshore and Petrochemical Industries. A.S. Garabedian, J.R. Griffith, N.R. Keltner, N.J. Alvares, and S.J. Grayson. Presented at ASTM E-5 Symposium on Very Large Scale Fires: American Society for Testing and Materials, St. Louis, Missouri, June 1997.

Jet Fire Resistance for Passive Fire Protection Materials on Tubular Sections. Al-Hassan, T., A.B. Wenzel, and P. Mather.  In:  Proceedings of the Seventh International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 25-30, 1997.

Current Status and Future Needs of Fire Modeling. M.L. Janssens.  Presented at Live Fire Testing and Evaluation Workshop IV, SanAntonio, Texas, April 29-30,1997.

Method for Calculating the Fire Resistance of Exposed Timber Decks, M.L. Janssens.  In:  Proceedings of the 5^th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, March 3-7, 1997, Melbourne, Australia, Hasemi, Y., Editor, Elsevier Applied Science, New York, pp. 1189-1200, 1997.

Improved Method for Analyzing Ignition Data of Composites. M.L. Janssens, and A. Grenier.  Presented at 23^rd International Conference on Fire Safety, Millbrae, California, January 13-17, 1997, Product Safety Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, 253-264, 1997.

Pipeline Purging Principles and Practice. J.E. Johnson, S.J. Svedemon, C.A. Kuhl, J.G. Gregor, and A.K. Lombeth. Presented at AGA Operating Section Proceedings, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 19-22, 1996.

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