Improving the Data Interpretation Process in Forensic Fire Debris Analysis
15PNIJ-24-GG-03847-NIJB
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$179,968
Arson
Analyst and machine learning opinions in fire debris analysis
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Evaluation of uncertainty in direct measurement for parameterization of pyrolysis models, Part I: Thermal analysis
Date Published
December 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Concentration of ignitable liquid residue from simulated fire debris by dynamic vapor microextraction: Sensitivity to instrument settings and debris characteristics
Date Published
September 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Comprehensive Evaluation of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Approaches to Predict Evaporation of Ignitable Liquids for Fire Debris Applications
15PNIJ-23-GG-04231-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$262,678
Experimental and numerical investigations for the development and validation of thermo-chemistry models and property databases for selected wall lining materials under fire exposure
15PNIJ-23-GG-04204-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$290,289
Experimental data from compartment fires with gas burner and upholstered furniture fuels
Date Published
April 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Class-conditional feature modeling for ignitable liquid classification with substantial substrate contribution in fire debris analysis
Date Published
2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Sampling and recovery of ignitable liquid residues (ILRs) from fire debris using capillary microextraction of volatiles (CMV) for on-site analysis
Date Published
January 2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Investigating Kinetic and Thermodynamic Approaches to Predict Evaporation of Gasoline at Elevated Temperatures for Fire Debris Applications
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Investigating the Impacts of Architectural Finishes on Fire Patterns in Support of Developing Data-driven Tools for Pattern Analysis
15PNIJ-22-GG-04442-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$531,257
Enhanced Ignitable Liquid and Substrate Database Functionality for Improved Casework and Research.
15PNIJ-22-GG-04421-SLFO
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$289,496
FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN MEDIUM RANGE IGNITABLE LIQUIDS AND THE USE OF GRAPHICAL DISPLAY TO DEMONSTRATE DATA SUFFICIENCY
15PNIJ-22-GG-03577-SLFO
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$141,921
Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards
15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$1,087,985
Development of an Extraction Technique for Ignitable Liquid Residues (ILR) in the Field using Capillary Microextraction of Volatiles (CMV) and Person-Portable GC-MS
Date Published
February 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Literature Review to Support the Development of a Database of Contemporary Material Properties for Fire Investigation Analysis
Date Published
March 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
How Things Burn: Developing Realistic Models of How Materials Combust and Degrade in a Fire
Date Published
February 22, 2022
Researchers have created a more accurate methodology for predicting how things burn
Validation of CFD fire model pressure predictions for modern residential style structures
Date Published
December 2021
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The Effect of Microbial Degradation on the Chromatographic Profiles of Tiki Torch Fuel Lamp Oil and Turpentine
Date Published
2011
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Preserving ignitable liquid residues on soil using Triclosan as an anti-microbial agent
Date Published
2014
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
A unified kinetic and thermodynamic model of evaporation for forensic applications
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
How Things Burn: Developing Realistic Models of How Materials Combust and Degrade in a Fire
Date Published
February 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ
Validation of ground truth fire debris classification by supervised machine learning
Date Published
December 2021
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Weathering of ignitable liquids at elevated temperatures: A thermodynamic model, based on laws of ideal solutions, to predict weathering in structure fires
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Application of a kinetic model to predict extracted ion profiles for the identification of evaporated ignitable liquids
Date Published
June 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored