{"title":"Progress to Develop Globally Harmonized International Testing Standards for Large Outdoor Fires, Including Wildland-Urban Interface Fires","authors":"Samuel L. Manzello","doi":"10.1002/fam.3258","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire problem continues to perplex governments around the world. The WUI fire situation is not becoming better across the earth and globally harmonized test standards are required to help lessen the destruction in the event of WUI fire disasters. In this brief overview, a review of activities undertaken in ISO TC92/WG14, the Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment Working Group, under ISO TC92, is provided. Specifically, the genesis of how this working group came to be formed is provided as well as an overview of current documents that have been published by ISO TC92 and developed by ISO TC92/WG14. The review closes with recently added new work items in ISO TC92/WG14 and some possible future challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":12186,"journal":{"name":"Fire and Materials","volume":"49 5","pages":"512-516"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fam.3258","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fire and Materials","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fam.3258","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire problem continues to perplex governments around the world. The WUI fire situation is not becoming better across the earth and globally harmonized test standards are required to help lessen the destruction in the event of WUI fire disasters. In this brief overview, a review of activities undertaken in ISO TC92/WG14, the Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment Working Group, under ISO TC92, is provided. Specifically, the genesis of how this working group came to be formed is provided as well as an overview of current documents that have been published by ISO TC92 and developed by ISO TC92/WG14. The review closes with recently added new work items in ISO TC92/WG14 and some possible future challenges.
期刊介绍:
Fire and Materials is an international journal for scientific and technological communications directed at the fire properties of materials and the products into which they are made. This covers all aspects of the polymer field and the end uses where polymers find application; the important developments in the fields of natural products - wood and cellulosics; non-polymeric materials - metals and ceramics; as well as the chemistry and industrial applications of fire retardant chemicals.
Contributions will be particularly welcomed on heat release; properties of combustion products - smoke opacity, toxicity and corrosivity; modelling and testing.