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A Foundational Study of Fire Debris Interpretation Using Quantitative Measures of Chromatographic Features with the Application of ACE-V Methodology

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Fire Pattern Repeatability: A Study in Uncertainty

Journal

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Date Published

2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Measuring Evaporation Rate Constants of Highly Volatile Compounds and Investigating the Effect of Interface on a Kinetic Model Applied to Forensic Fire Debris

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Effects of Household Substrates on the Evaporation of Ignitable Liquids at Temperatures up to 210℃

Date Published

March 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Development of a Database of Contemporary Material Properties for Fire Investigation Analysis Materials and Methods

Date Published

March 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Literature Review to Support the Development of a Database of Contemporary Material Properties for Fire Investigation Analysis

Date Published

March 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Gas burner experiments conducted in modern residential style structures

Journal

Fire Safety Journal

Date Published

December 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Wall Smoke Deposition from a Hot Smoke Layer

Journal

Fire Technology

Date Published

2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Effect of Microbial Degradation on the Chromatographic Profiles of Tiki Torch Fuel Lamp Oil and Turpentine

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Preserving ignitable liquid residues on soil using Triclosan as an anti-microbial agent

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Ignitable Liquids Based on the Total Ion Spectrum

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Combined target factor analysis and Bayesian soft-classification of interference-contaminated samples: Forensic Fire Debris Analysis

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Ignitable liquid identification using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry data by projected difference resolution mapping and fuzzy rule-building expert system classification

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Classification of ground-truth fire debris samples using artificial neural networks

Journal

Forensic Chemistry

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

A unified kinetic and thermodynamic model of evaporation for forensic applications

Journal

Forensic Chemistry

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A critical comparison of vacuum UV (VUV) spectrometer and electron ionization single quadrupole mass spectrometer detectors for the analysis of alkylbenzenes in gasoline by gas chromatography: Experimental and statistical aspects

Journal

Talanta

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

How Things Burn: Developing Realistic Models of How Materials Combust and Degrade in a Fire

Date Published

February 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Characterization of a headspace sampling method with a five-component diesel fuel surrogate

Journal

Forensic Chemistry

Date Published

March 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Smoke Oxidation Kinetics for Application to Prediction of Clean Burn Patterns

Journal

Journal of Fire and Materials

Date Published

April 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Liquid Fuel Spill Fire Dynamics

Journal

Fire Technology

Date Published

2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Determination of Material Property Input for Fire Modeling

Date Published

January 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description

Study of the Reliability of Fire Pattern Indicators Used in Wildland Fire Investigation

2020-R2-CX-0047

Open

Funding First Awarded

2020

$519,893

A Comprehensive Study of the Alteration of Ignitable Liquids by Weathering and Microbial Degradation

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

January 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)