Activities
Faculty Research Areas
- Kenneth Isman - hydrodynamics, suppression, systems engineering, smoke detection and management
- James Milke - structures, detection, egress
- Shuna Ni - structural fire engineering, fire forensics, safety of mass-timber buildings
- Fernando Raffan-Montoya - diagnostics, test standards, fire toxicity, fire suppression and wildfire early detection
- Stanislav Stoliarov - pyrolysis, flammability, fire growth
- Peter Sunderland - soot, fire dynamics, diagnostics
- Arnaud Trouvé - turbulent combustion, fire modeling, data assimilation
Laboratory Methods: Standard Tools and Techniques
The following presentations are organized to explain the fundamental methods and equipment in our labs: what they can measure, how to use these tools, the governing principles of how they work, their limitations, and the physics/math/post-processing required to go from machine output to useful data:
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Cone Calorimetry.pdf -
CO CO2 Detector.pptx
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Gas Chromatography.pptx
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Heat Flux Sensors.pptx
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MCC MFC Lab Methods.pptx
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Optical Thermometry.pptx
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Sensors and Instrumentation.pdf
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TEM and Laser Extinction Methods.pptx -
Thermocouples.pptx
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Thermogravimetric Analysis and DSC.pdf
Library Resources
FPE resources available in the UMD Library System
Theses
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