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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Fire Technology Department conducts standard tests (below) in accordance with strict standard fire test methods used in industries:

Construction

Transportation

Public Utilities

Standard Tests

Nonstandard Tests

Fire Technology Custom Design Services

*CUSTOM DESIGN*	*CONTACT*
Aerospace Components (Testing and Evaluations)	Barry Badders
Combat Vehicle Survivability Testing	Marc Janssens
Custom Design Offshore Fire Systems	Barry Badders
Environmental Control Equipment	Barry Badders
Fire Modeling	Jason Huczek
Fire Protection Custom-Design Tests	Barry Badders
Flame Arrester	Alexandra Joyce
Full-Scale Pool Fire Simulations	Barry Badders
Gas and Vapor Cloud Fire and Explosion	Alexandra Joyce
Gas Dispersion (Accidental Releases)	Alexandra Joyce
Heat Transfer Equipment (Testing and Evaluation)	Alexandra Joyce
Hydrocarbon Pool Fire Simulation >2000°F	Barry Badders
Jet Fire/High Intensity Apparatus/High-Rise Curve	Barry Badders
Listing and Labeling Services	Tim Koebke
Natural Gas Systems (Transmission and Distribution)	Alexandra Joyce
Perimeter Joints and Fire Stops	Barry Badders
Pool Fire/Flame Engulfment Evaluations	Barry Badders
Propellant Combustion, Fires, and Military Studies	Alexandra Joyce
Propellant Pyrotechnics and High Sensitivity Studies	Alexandra Joyce
Risks and Hazard Analysis	Alexandra Joyce
Room Temperature/Rate of Heat Release Test	Jason Huczek
Sprinkler Evaluation for Rack Storage in Warehouse	Jason Huczek
Telecommunications NEBS	Bill Bendele

SwRI's testing laboratories and Listing, Labeling and Follow-up Inspections Program are accredited through federal, state, international and other various agencies.

For more information about fire technology services and capabilities for third-party listing and labeling and third-party production control programs and product certification at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please call (210) 522-2311 or e-mail fire-info@swri.org.

fire.swri.org

Contact Information

Matthew Blais, Ph.D.

Director

Department of Fire Technology

(210) 522-3524

mblais@swri.org

Fire Technology

(210) 522-2311

fire-info@swri.org

fire.swri.org

Related Terminology

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code compliance

engineering design

product development

fire and explosion investigations

fire testing laboratory

material flammability

risk and hazards

suppression

third party certification

listing and labeling

production control

product certification

Related Information

Listing, Labeling, and Follow-up Inspection Services

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Southwest Research Institute^®(SwRI^®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

December 28, 2012