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Expert 011196 has over 40 years of experience in fire safety science, having been the first person to earn a Ph.D. in Fire Protection Engineering in 1976. He currently specializes in lending fire safety science support to investigations of fires and explosions. He is a Principal Member of NFPA’s Technical Committee on Fire Investigations, which develops the standard guide for investigation of fires and explosions, NFPA 921.
He is also well known for having invented the Cone Calorimeter and the large-scale (furniture) calorimeter while he was doing research for NIST. Both of these apparatuses are based on the oxygen consumption principle and are in use in laboratories around the world. He has authored over 300 technical publications, regularly teaches groups of fire investigators, and lectures at scientific symposia. He is currently working on a new book on Electrical Fires and Explosions.
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