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Wolfpack Gear Inc. Composite Frame Firefighter Backpack, Gabriel Mountjoy, Blair Ridings, Carl Drummond Buchenroth
Wolfpack Gear Inc. Composite Frame Firefighter Backpack, Gabriel Mountjoy, Blair Ridings, Carl Drummond Buchenroth
Mechanical Engineering
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Study Of Statistical And Computational Intelligence Methods Of Detecting Temporal Signature Of Forest Fire Heat Plume From Single-Band Ground-Based Infrared Video, Daniel G. Kohler
Study Of Statistical And Computational Intelligence Methods Of Detecting Temporal Signature Of Forest Fire Heat Plume From Single-Band Ground-Based Infrared Video, Daniel G. Kohler
Master's Theses
This thesis will analyze video from land-based, cooled mid-wave infrared cameras to identify temporal features indicative of a heat plume from a forest fire. Desirable features and methods will show an ability to distinguish between heat plume movement and other movements, such as foliage, vehicles, humans, and birds in flight. Features will be constructed primarily using combinations of statistics and principal component analysis (PCA) with intent to detect key characteristics of fire and heat plume: persistence and growth. Several classification systems will combine and filter the features in an attempt to classify pixels as either heat or non-heat. The classification …
Compressed Air Foam Fire Grounds Evolution Tests, Justin A. Lapolla, Alexander L. Morano, Vincent P. Luchsinger
Compressed Air Foam Fire Grounds Evolution Tests, Justin A. Lapolla, Alexander L. Morano, Vincent P. Luchsinger
Mechanical Engineering
Compressed air foam firefighting technology has been purchased by a number of urban fire departments in the United States. These departments have curtailed their use of these systems until potential safety hazards associated with the use of compressed air foam systems in interior structure fires are evaluated. This project is part of a greater effort to evaluate the efficacy and practicality of compressed air foam systems for use in structural firefighting. This project focused on developing test apparatuses and test methods for measuring the following safety-related parameters: 1.) nozzle reaction force of a fire nozzle, 2.) the force required to …