BFRL NEWS

Previously Posted News Archives
2004

Date Reported
News Item

 
Fall 2004   Protecting Buildings from
Airborne Threats.  Details...
   

 

Fall 2004   Tests show how fire spreads
from house to house. Read more...
   

 

Fall 2004   Single frame of a computer simulation (containing 90,000 elements) of the WTC North Tower as it responds to wind loads.World Trade Towers Design Exceeded Wind Load Codes.  Details...
   

 

Fall 2004  

WTC & RI Nightclub Fire Investigations to be Discussed on October 19 and 20.  Details...

   

 

Fall 2004   October 3 - 9 is Fire Prevention Week!  Fire Prevention Tips for Saving Lives.  Details...
   

 

Summer 2004   Fire Tests Provide WTC Floor System Data.  Details...
   
 
Summer 2004   Software Difficulties Cost Builders Billions.  Details...
   

 

Summer 2004  

In a recent NIST lab test, flames from a simulated house with combustible exterior walls ignite a similar house six feet away.Tests show how fire spreads from house to house. Read more...

   

 

Summer 2004   NIST to offer Standard Reference cigarette for ignition strength measurement.  Read the Letter to Industry...
   

 

Summer 2004  

WTC Investigation Identifies Standards, Codes Issues.  Details...

   

 

Summer 2004   New Tool Helps Builders Evaluate Terrorist Threat.  Details...
   

 

Summer 2004   LADAR image of wooded terrain at NIST.New Publication:
Performance Analysis of Next-Generation LADAR for manufacturing, Construction, and Mobility (PDF file, 8,788 KB)
   

 

Summer 2004   Building and Fire Research at NBS/NIST 1975-2000 
 -- a history of BFRL, published December 2003
   

 

Summer 2004   Interflam logo
5-7th July 2004
Edinburgh, Scotland
   
 
Summer 2004   National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee to Hold Meeting June 22-23, 2004.  Details...
   

 

Summer 2004   WTC Investigation Press Briefing in New York, June 18, 2004.  Details...
   

 

Spring 2004   Three-dimensional perspective view of a mocked-up wall section. Red circular area at left indicates moisture inside a wall. Intelligent Automation Inc. Radio Waves ‘See’ Moisture in Walls.  Details...
     
Spring 2004   Current Smoke Alarms Pass Life-Saving Tests.  Details...
   

 

Winter 2004   Standardizing Disaster Models to Help First Responders.  Details...
     
Winter 2004   Solid progress in the investigation of the Feb. 20, 2003, fire at The Station nightclub in W. Warwick, R.I.  Details...
   

 

Winter 2004   Agreements to Facilitate World Trade Center Study.  Details...
   

 

Winter 2004   Developing Elevators that Function During Fires.  Details...
   

 

Winter 2004  

Fire test -- mock-up of the stage area at The Station nightclub.

A mock-up of the stage area at The Station nightclub is ignited at the BFRL Large Fire Testing Facility. Temperatures and other data gathered during the test can help researchers determine what happened during the actual fire. These images show the growth of a test fire without sprinklers in less than one minute. Details...

 

   

 


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