UL FSRI Episodes
085 - E-mobility and energy storage hazards with Adam Barowy
Jan. 18, 2023
Three months ago I saw a video of some sort of an electric scooter going off in someone's residential building. That person had absolutely no chance of controlling that fire. I guess they have escaped, but it must have been …
065 - Understanding mesh sensitivity and model uncertainties with Jason Floyd
Aug. 31, 2022
Will a higher resolution mesh make my CFD more accurate? That is a harmless question, and most of us would tend toward 'I guess yeah'. But let us try and unpack this. Into atoms! What does higher resolution mean? How exactly…
064 - Heat stress in fires - from inside and outside with Denise Smith and Gavin Horn
Aug. 24, 2022
This amount of heat flux for this amount of time, routine conditions, check, done. This is how I used to do my engineering and tenability assessment related to heat stress... up till today when prof Denisse Smith and prof Ga…
059 - Residential fire safety with Dan Madrzykowski and Charlie Fleischmann
July 20, 2022
How much the fire scene at households has changed over the last 30 years? Why modern furniture burns worse than one made with wood, cotton and other natural materials? And what does that mean to firefighting? What challenges…
042 - Unsafe environment of post fire scenes with Gavin Horn
March 16, 2022
We all understand the dangers of smoke inhalation in fires. But what about the site of the fire a few days after it was put out? It looks clean, maybe even lost the smell... Is it something to worry about, or you can rush st…
036 - Researching fire with firefighters - UL FSRI: Steve Kerber and Craig Weinschenk
Feb. 2, 2022
In this episode I was really happy to host two amazing researchers from UL FSRI - Dr Steve Kerber, the VP of Underwriter Laboratories and Director of UL Fire Safety Research Institute, and Dr Craig Weinschenk, research engin…