Vytenis Babrauskas

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Vytenis Babrauskas's Degrees

PhD Fire Protection Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Masters Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
Bachelors Mechanical Engineering Stanford University

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Heat release rate: The single most important variable in fire hazard☆ (1990) (791)
Development of the cone calorimeter—A bench-scale heat release rate apparatus based on oxygen consumption† (1982) (512)
Estimating large pool fire burning rates (1983) (415)
Heat Release In Fires (1990) (375)
Ignition of Wood: A Review of the State of the Art (2002) (254)
Estimating room flashover potential (1980) (135)
Ignitability measurements with the cone calorimeter (1986) (132)
Fire conditions for smoke toxicity measurement (1994) (123)
Defining flashover for fire hazard calculations (1999) (120)
Charring rate of wood as a tool for fire investigations (2005) (118)
Heat Release Rates (2016) (115)
Post‐flashover compartment fires: Basis of a theoretical model (1978) (113)
Specimen heat fluxes for bench-scale heat release rate testing (1995) (95)
The Cone Calorimeter (2016) (91)
Fire behavior of upholstered furniture (1985) (89)
Upholstered Furniture Room Fires—Measurements, Comparison With Furniture Calorimeter Data, and Flashover Predictions (1984) (89)
RSET/ASET, a flawed concept for fire safety assessment (2010) (83)
A methodology for obtaining and using toxic potency data for fire hazard analysis (1998) (78)
Toxic potency measurement for fire hazard analysis (1992) (78)
Ignition Handbook: Principles and Applications to Fire Safety Engineering, Fire Investigation, Risk Management and Forensic Science (2003) (75)
The historical basis of fire resistance testing — Part I (1978) (73)
Explosions of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in storage or transportation are preventable accidents. (2016) (72)
Plastics flammability handbook: Principles, regulations, testing, and approval, (2004) (70)
Defining flashover for fire hazard calculations: Part II (2003) (67)
How do electrical wiring faults lead to structure ignitions (2001) (67)
COMPF2: A Program for Calculating Post-Flashover Fire Temperatures. Final Report. | NIST (1979) (66)
The evaluation of the extent of transporting or "tracking" an identifiable ignitable liquid (gasoline) throughout fire scenes during the investigative process. (2004) (62)
The historical basis of fire resistance testing — Part II (1978) (60)
Effective heat of combustion for flaming combustion of conifers (2006) (60)
A closed-form approximation for post-flashover compartment fire temperatures (1981) (59)
The Effect Of Oxygen Concentration On Co And Smoke Produced By Flames (1991) (59)
Fire Behavior of Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses (2000) (53)
Mechanisms and modes for ignition of low‐voltage, PVC‐insulated electrotechnical products (2006) (50)
The Effect Of Scale On Smoke Emission (1989) (48)
Flame retardants in building insulation: a case for re-evaluating building codes (2012) (46)
The generation of CO in bench-scale fire tests and the prediction for real-scale fires (1995) (44)
A cone calorimeter for controlled‐atmosphere studies (1992) (43)
Will the second item ignite (1981) (43)
Flame Retardants in Furniture Foam: Benefits and Risks (2011) (43)
Sandwich panel performance in full-scale and bench-scale fire tests (1997) (43)
Upholstered Furniture Heat Release Rates: Measurements and Estimation (1983) (42)
Smoke and Soot Data Determinations in the Cone Calorimeter (1988) (40)
Analysis of large-scale fire test data (1991) (40)
Free burning fires (1986) (39)
Developing rational, performance-based fire safety requirements in model building codes (1994) (38)
Arc Beads from Fires: Can ‘Cause’ Beads be Distinguished from ‘Victim’ Beads by Physical or Chemical Testing? (2004) (37)
Research on Electrical Fires: The State of the Art (2008) (35)
Flame lengths under ceilings (1980) (35)
A simplified characterization of upholstered furniture heat release rates (1986) (35)
User's guide for the cone calorimeter (1988) (33)
The effects of specimen edge conditions on heat release rate (1993) (32)
Effective measurement techniques for heat, smoke, and toxic fire gases (1991) (30)
Thermal decomposition of ammonium nitrate (2019) (30)
The cone calorimeter used for predictions of the full-scale burning behaviour of upholstered furniture (1997) (30)
The phi meter: A simple, fuel‐independent instrument for monitoring combustion equivalence ratio (1994) (29)
A New Approach to Fire Toxicity Data for Hazard Evaluation (1987) (29)
Comparative Rates of Heat Release from Five Different Types of Test Apparatuses (1986) (29)
TOXFIRE - Fire characteristics and smoke gas analyses in under-ventilated large-scale combustion experiments (1996) (29)
Thermoplastic Pool Compartment Fires (1979) (28)
Fire Modeling Tools for Fse: Are They Good Enough? (1996) (28)
Post-Flashover Compartment Fires: Application of a Theoretical Model (1979) (27)
Ten Years of Heat Release Research with the Cone Calorimeter (1993) (27)
MECHANISMS AND MODES FOR IGNITION OF LOW-VOLTAGE PVC WIRES, CABLES, AND CORDS (2005) (26)
Combustion of Mattresses Exposed to Flaming Ignition Sources. Part 1. Full-Scale Tests and Hazard Analysis. Final Report. | NIST (1977) (25)
Façade fire tests: Towards an international test standard (1996) (24)
Data for Room Fire Model Comparisons (1991) (24)
Prediction of Upholstered Chair Heat Release Rates from Bench-Scale Measurements (1985) (21)
Ignition: A Century of Research and an Assessment of Our Current Status (2007) (21)
Pillow burning rates (1985) (21)
Concepts for fire protection of passenger rail transportation vehicles: Past, present, and future† (1995) (20)
The Rational Development Of Bench-scale Fire Tests For Full-scale Fire Prediction (1989) (19)
Fire safety improvements in the combustion toxicity area: Is there a role for LC50 tests? (2000) (19)
Toxic hazard from fires: A simple assessment method☆ (1993) (17)
Hazards of combustion products: Toxicity, opacity, corrosivity, and heat release: The experts' views on capability and issues (2011) (17)
Performance of the Ohio State University rate of heat release apparatus using polymethylmethacrylate and gaseous fuels (1982) (16)
Some Neglected Areas in Fire Safety Engineering (2013) (16)
Applications of Predictive Smoke Measurements (1981) (16)
Smoke and gas evolution rate measurements on fire-retarded plastics with the cone calorimeter (1989) (15)
Simulated Fires in Substances of Pesticide Type (1999) (15)
Combustion of mattresses exposed to flaming ignition sources part II. Bench-scale tests and recommended standard test (1981) (14)
Arc Mapping: A Critical Review (2018) (14)
Upholstered Furniture Transition from Smoldering to Flaming (1997) (13)
Standardization of formats and presentation of fire data—the FDMS (1991) (13)
Structural fire protection: ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 78. Edited by T. T. Lie. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, August 1992, 241 pp. ISBN 0-87262-888-4. Laminated paper over boards. Price: US$56.00 (1993) (12)
Testing of furniture composites in the Cone Calorimeter: A new specimen preparation method and round robin results (1998) (12)
Temperature measurement in fire test furnaces (1978) (11)
Designing products for fire performance: the State of the art of test methods and fire models☆ (1995) (11)
Hazard I. Volume 1 :: fire hazard assessment method (1987) (11)
Burning Behavior of Upholstered Furniture Mockups (1984) (11)
The ammonium nitrate explosion at West, Texas: A disaster that could have been avoided (2018) (11)
Electric arc explosions—A review (2017) (11)
The Role of Bench-Scale Test Data in Assessing Real-Scale Fire Toxicity (2018) (10)
Prudent practices for the design and installation of heat‐producing devices near wood materials (2007) (10)
8 – Fire Hazard Analysis (2001) (10)
Unexposed-face temperature criteria in fire resistance tests: A reappraisal (2009) (10)
The West, Texas, ammonium nitrate explosion: A failure of regulation (2017) (10)
Ignition of Gases, Vapors, and Liquids by Hot Surfaces (2021) (9)
Describing product fire performance—manufacturers' versus modelers' needs (1994) (9)
Fire behaviour of plastic parts in electrical appliances—standards versus required fire safety objectives (2007) (8)
Comparitive data from LIFT and cone calorimeter tests om 6 products, including flame flux measurements. (1999) (8)
Firebrands and Embers (2020) (7)
UN test O.1 errors in quantifying the behavior of solid oxidizers (2016) (7)
WOOD CHAR DEPTH: INTERPRETATION IN FIRE INVESTIGATIONS (2004) (7)
An Introduction to Mathematical Fire Modeling, 2 nd edn. (2001) (7)
Testing for Surface Spread of Flame: New Tests to Come into Use (1997) (7)
The role of flame flux in opposed‐flow flame spread (1995) (7)
Engineering Variables to Replace the Concept of ‘Noncombustibility’ (2017) (7)
Flame Retardant Additives in Polymers (2014) (7)
Large-Scale Validation of Bench-Scale Fire Toxicity Tests (1991) (7)
PERFORMANCE-BASED BUILDING CODES: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE LEVELS OF SAFETY? (2002) (6)
Full-scale burning behavior of upholstered chairs (2017) (6)
Fusing of wires by electrical current (2011) (6)
Errors in the Compilations of Minimum Explosion Concentration Values for Dust Clouds (2018) (6)
Book Review: SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering (2016) (5)
A NEW INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR FLAMMABILITY TESTING (1994) (5)
On the Rate of Heat Release in the Cone Calorimeter (1987) (5)
Performance Testing for the Corrosivity of Smoke (1990) (5)
The Development and Evolution of the Cone Calorimeter: A Review of 12 Years of Research and Standardization (1995) (4)
Fire performance of wire and cable: Reaction-to-fire tests. A critical review of the existing methods and of new concepts. Technical note (Final) (1991) (4)
Questions About the Conclusions in Blais and Carpenter 2013 (2015) (4)
Fire testing of furniture in the Cone Calorimeter - the CBUF test protocol. (1994) (4)
Exploration of Combustion Limitations and Alternatives to the NBS Toxicity Test Method. | NIST (1985) (4)
Modern test methods for flammability (1990) (4)
Fires originating in branch-circuit NM cables due to installation damage (2018) (4)
Fire-related standards and testing (1987) (3)
Combustion toxicity regulations for construction products (2020) (3)
Comments on heat release rate (1994) (3)
Fire safety design and concrete: By T. Z. Harmathy. Longman Scientific & Technical, Essex, UK, 1993. ISBN 0582 07687 0. Price: £70.00. US publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. ISBN 0470 20005 7. Price: $150.00. xii, 412 pp. (1994) (3)
Book review: Temperature Calculation in Fire Safety Engineering (2016) (3)
Bench-Scale Predictions of Mattress and Upholstered Chair Fires: Similarities and Differences (1994) (2)
Data for fire hazard assessment of selected non-halogenated and halogenated fire retardants: Report of Test FR 3983 (1991) (2)
Fire safety is the key to ammonium nitrate explosion safety (2020) (2)
Flame fluxes in opposed-flow flame spread. A review of the literature. (1995) (2)
Optimising foil thickness for cone calorimeter tests of furniture composites (1994) (2)
An Annotated Bibliography on Sampling Line Losses (2003) (1)
Cone Calorimeter Annotated Bibliography, 1982-1991 (2018) (1)
Short communication: Drying agents' effects on CO2 readings (1994) (1)
Analyzing ignition data for fire modeling purposes (2021) (1)
The CBUF Cone Calorimeter Test Protocol (1996) (1)
Reply to comments of Thomas and Bullen (1980) (1)
Book review: Beard A and Carvel R (eds). Handbook of tunnel fire safety (2012) (1)
Questions and Comments about the Methodology and Conclusions in ‘Comparative Room Burn Study of Furnished Rooms from the United Kingdom, France and the United States’, by Blais et al. 2019 (2021) (1)
A comparative examination of the fire performance of pipe insulation (1996) (1)
On the Criterion for Flashover (2011) (1)
5 – Effects of Test Apparatus and of Test Scale (2001) (0)
Fire Investigation, Niamh Nic Daeid (Ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, USA (2004), Francis UK (£60.99), ISBN: 0-415-24891-4 (2005) (0)
Analysis and Interpretation of Fire Scene Evidence, José R. Almirall, Kenneth G. Furton (Eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, USA (2004), Francis UK (£60.99)), ISBN: 0-8493-7885-0 (2005) (0)
Minimum Values of Voltage, Current, or Power for the Ignition of Fire (2022) (0)
Comments on “The Historical Narrative of the Standard Temperature–Time Heating Curve for Structures” by Gales, et al. (2021) (0)
Estimating room flashover potential (1981) (0)
Fire Standards, 6th edn., American Society for Standards and Materials. West Conshohocken, PA 19428 USA (2004), (250 pp., $265 North America/$292 elsewhere. softbound) CD-ROM edition: ($265 North America/$292 elsewhere), ISBN: 0-8031-3334-0, 0-8031-3335-9 (2005) (0)
Fire engineering and emergency planning: Research and applications: edited by Ronald Barham. E. & F. N. Spon, London, UK 1996, xxii + 589 pp, $11200 US, u7500, ISBN 9 419 20180 7, hardbound (1997) (0)
Estimating room flashover potential (1980) (0)
Book review: An introduction to fire dynamics (2012) (0)
Ignition of Gases, Vapors, and Liquids by Hot Surfaces (2021) (0)
Letters to the editor (1991) (0)
Handbook of Explosion Prevention and Protection, H. Martin Hattwig, S. Henrikus Steen (Eds.). Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2004), Hardbound, xix, 699 pages; UK £175.00 US $325.00. English translation of the German Handbuch des Explosionsschutzes published in 2000, ISBN: 3-527-30718-4 (2005) (0)
Comments on “The curious case of the second/end peak in the heat release rate of wood: A cone calorimeter investigation,” by Sanned et al. (2023) (0)
Hot Metal Particles (2020) (0)
Book Review: Dictionary of Fire Protection Engineering, Clifford Jones, University of Aberdeen, U.K., 2010. Whittles Publishing, Caithness, Scotland, U.K., 256 pp., softback, price £16.99. ISBN 978-1904445-86-9 (2010) (0)
Comments on 'use of small-scale testing to predict cal 133 performance' by Herman H. Forsten (1998) (0)
Letter to the editor concerning the paper “The rise and fall of the UK's spandrel pane,” by Law and Kanellopoulos (2021) (0)
Questions About the Conclusions in Blais and Carpenter 2013 (2014) (0)
Readers' forum (1948) (0)
Cone calorimetry , by M. J. Scudamore, P. J. Briggs and F. H. Prager (1991) (0)
4 - Ignition Sources (2001) (0)
Engineering Variables to Replace the Concept of ‘Noncombustibility’ (2016) (0)
Exploration of combustion limitations and alternatives to the NBS (Bational Bureau of Standards) toxicity test method (1985) (0)
Arc Mapping: A Critical Review (2018) (0)
To the Editor (2003) (0)
Letter to the Editor (2003) (0)
Errors in the Compilations of Minimum Explosion Concentration Values for Dust Clouds (2017) (0)
Fire Safety Engineering Principles for Performance-Based Building Regulations: A Novel Approach (1996) (0)
Cone Calorimeter rate of heat release measurements for upholstered composites of polyurethane foams (1991) (0)
Comments on “The Historical Narrative of the Standard Temperature–Time Heating Curve for Structures” by Gales, et al. (2021) (0)
The Forum (2011) (0)
Special issue: ISFI 2016 In memory of Patrick Kennedy (2017) (0)
Calibration problems with the ASTM E108 fire test (2022) (0)
6 – Upholstered Item Design Engineering (2001) (0)
Book ReviewASTM Fire Standards and Related Technical Material, 7th ed., 2 Vols. American Society for Standards and Materials, West Conshohocken, USA (2007). 3080pp., $365, total, softbound. Printed edition, ISBN:978-0-8031-5684-5. CD-ROM edition (priced and sold separately), $365, ISBN:978-0-8031-56 (2008) (0)
Readers’ forum (1980) (0)
Book ReviewExplosion Protection: Electrical Apparatus and Systems for Chemical Plants, Oil and Gas Industry, Coal Mining Industry, Heinrich Groh, Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford (2004), (Hardbound, 524 pp. £49.95, $74.95), ISBN: 0-7506-4777-9 (2004) (0)
3 – Test Methods, Standards and Regulations (2001) (0)

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