7. OTHER NSF FIRE RELATED ACTIVITIES Within the Engineering Division of the Research Directorate there is a special program for tall buildings. Some effort is directed at structural problems resulting from fire. While some combustion research is supported within the Division, research on unwanted fires is not. Within RANN in the Social Systems and Human Resources Division, the Municipal Systems, Operations, and Services effort includes the delivery of fire protection. Two grants were recently made under Program Announcement NSF 73-4 for evaluation of policy-related research in fire protection with respect to technical quality, utility for policy-makers and potential for codification and wider diffusion. The result will be a synthesized base of evaluated information for potential use by agencies at all levels of government. 8. SUMMARY The NSF Fire Research Program covers the spectrum from basic to applied research and is directed at critical elements of the nation's fire problems. Through close coordination with other Federal agencies, a research effort has resulted which is complementary and often permits study on longer term payoff areas than is usually possible in a mission agency. Projects contain utilization plans, coupling with potential users and periodic progress reviews in order to accelerate the transfer of research results to useful purposes and to provide the research people with a knowledge of needs of practitioners. APPENDIX. LIST OF ACTIVE NSF RESEARCH GRANTS AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, AS OF AUGUST 1, 1973 Brown University, Division of Engineering, Merwin Silbukin, Flame Spreading Over Solid Surfaces. California Institute of Technology, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Edward E. Zukoski, Convective Flows of Building Fires. Cornell University, Department of Thermal Engineering, Kenneth E. Torrance, Flame Spread Over Liquid Fuels. Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Wolfgang Wulff, Ignition of Fabrics. Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Howard W. Emmons (with Raymond Friedman, Factory Mutual Research Corp.), The Home Fire Project. Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Robert M. Fristrom, Fire Problems Research and Synthesis. National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Committee on Fire Research, Nelson T. Grisamore. National Bureau of Standards, Conference on Firesafety For Buildings: New York City-Rand Institute, Edward H. Blum, Fire Research Needs and Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, M. C. Yuen, Behavior of Water Droplets in Fire Plume. Princeton University, Guggenheim Laboratories, Irvin Glassman, Flame State University of New York, Binghamton, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Department of Mechanics, Richard S. L. Student Competitions on Relevant Engineering, Charles M. McCuen, Students Against Fires. Textile Research Institute, Bernard Miller, Thermal and Flammability University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Department of Statistics, F. N. 1. University of California, San Diego, Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, F. A. Williams, Fire Propagation Along Solid Surfaces. 9. University of Maine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ashley S. Campbell, Fire Rate of Spread in Paper Arrays. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. University of Montana, Wood Chemistry Laboratory, Fred Shafizadeh, University of Notre Dame, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical University of Utah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norman W. University of Utah, Flammability Research Center, Irving Einhorn, University of Washington, Department of Mechanical Engineering, R. C. |