December 2001

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NIST Cherry Road CD Incorporated into Command School Curriculum

Command School is a three day training symposium sponsored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs for fire department officers. The objective of the course is to improve fire incident command strategies to reduce firefighter deaths. The Command School instructors developed a presentation utilizing the BFRL produced CD-ROM, Simulation of the Dynamics of the fire at 3146 Cherry Road NE, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1999, NISTIR 6510. Two NIST models, the Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview, were used to simulate a townhouse fire that claimed the lives of two Washington D.C. firefighters. Approximately 2,000 fire officers attend Command School each year. Through support from the U.S. Fire Administration, each student will receive a copy of NISTIR 6510 on CD-ROM.

CONTACT: Dan Madrzykowski, 301-975-6677
Fire Fighting Technology Group
Fire Research Division

Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory Consortium Reviews Progress

The goal of the Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory, an industry-NIST consortium, is to improve modeling software so that much of the routine testing of cement and concrete can be eliminated, thus enabling the multi-variable, materials science-based, optimizaton of concrete. The second meeting to review technical progress of the VCCTL consortium was held in Monterrey, Mexico, at the headquarters of Cemex corporation. Three NIST researchers from BFRL, Dale Bentz, Clarissa Ferraris, and Edward Garboczi, attended, along with representatives from Dyckerhoff Cement, Cemex, the Portland Cement Association, and Holcim Cement. Attending via video link were representatives from Cemex (Switzerland), MBT (Switzerland), W.R. Grace (Boston), and NIST (ITL and MSEL, Gaithersburg). The meeting reviewed the technical accomplishments of the first year, which were favorably received by the industrial members. Research plans for the next six months were formulated, which reflect an increasing amount of collaboration. For more information, see our web page at http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/862/vcctl/.

CONTACT: Dale Bentz, 301-975-5865
Inorganic Materials Group
Building Materials Division

 

 

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