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Ignitibility of Structural Wood Products Exposed to Embers During Wildland Fires: A Review of Literature
From the Abstract: "The ignitability of structural components due to ember attack is a common cause of the structural fires in wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities. To fire-harden structures in WUI communities, it is important to be able to quantitatively predict the ignitability of wooden substrates in response to ember exposure. To commence this effort, in this manuscript, past studies have been compiled and analyzed to identify the knowledge gaps. Key topics are reviewed, including ignition of structures in WUI fires, measurement of thermal response of solid wood products used in residential structures, controlling mechanisms of ignition and sustained smoldering of wood, measurement of ember properties, real-scale and bench-scale experiments assessing ember ignitability of structural components, and surrogate ignition sources for assessing smoldering propensity of the wooden substrates. Existing standard test methods have also been reviewed in the light of their ability to represent common exposures observed in the WUI environment."
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
Nazaré, Shonali; Leventon, Isaac; Davis, Rick D.
2021-04
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Workshop Report: Research Roadmap for Reducing the Fire Hazard of Materials in the Future
"NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology] conducted a workshop on the Future Needs for Reducing the Fire Hazard of Materials on August 19-20, 2016, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Key stakeholders from industry, academia, government, and public laboratories from the U.S and abroad participated. They contributed their expert views on future applications, needs, and challenges related to reducing the fire hazards of existing and future materials and products that compose the built and manufactured environment. The objective was to gather and distribute information that could enable the global fire community to develop a multi-year research and development (R&D) plan to improve the fire resistance of products. The workshop attendees were asked to emphasize the development of new materials; technologies; reference materials; measurement and test methods; product flammability standards, and computational algorithms to reduce the fire hazard of building contents and construction materials. The participants were also asked to consider emerging technologies and practices, such as the increasing use of high energy density batteries, while not currently in widespread usage as of 2016, can be expected to be so in the future, and are becoming widespread as of the publishing of this report."
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.); United States. Department of Commerce
Davis, Rick D.; Marsh, Nathan Douglas, 1973-; Zammarano, Mauro
2018-03
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Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Innovative Fire Protection
"To address the U.S. fire problem, the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a roadmap to identify gaps in knowledge and measurement science that impede development of critical enabling technologies. The roadmap will be used in planning how to best use limited resources to reduce fire losses, provide a basis for BFRL strategic planning, and provide a shared vision. Stakeholder perspective on the fire problem is considered a critical part of the Roadmap development process. This report documents the proceedings of a stakeholder workshop on the national fire problem. The Innovative Fire Protection Workshop was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on June 4 and 5, 2009. The 70 participants represented a broad range of stakeholder perspectives, including various non-profit, academic, industry, and government organizations with an interest in fire safety. This report documents the Workshop results, which provided valuable suggestions on how best to reduce fire losses in the United States."
National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
Hamins, Anthony, 1956-; Amon, Francine; Averill, Jason D. . . .
2010-04
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