Fire Data Management System, FDMS 2.0.
Fire Data Management System, FDMS 2.0.
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Portier, R. W.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 39-40 pp, 1994.
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964
Keywords:
bench scale fire tests; computer databases; export; fire
research; import; large scale fire tests; numeric
databases; real scale fire tests; scalar data; fire
tests; vector data
Abstract:
A unified method of accessing data is crucial to both
experimental and modeling efforts in the development of
the science of fire. The FDMS concept is well founded,
and very important to experimentalists acquiring data,
as well as modelers and others using data related to
fires and material properties. A standalone, PC version
of the database, FDMS 1.0, currently exists which
supports a limited number of fire test method types.
This version is not portable across computer platforms
and is dependent upon third-party software libraries
which are no longer supported. A second generation of
the database, FDMS 2.0, is in development which will
remedy these problems and provide flexibility for future
data needs. As an extension to FDMS 1.0, version 2.0
will play an important part in model verification. The
design of FDMS 2.0 allows fire test data and model
output data to be stored in the same database. Storage
design provides for replicate data for standard test
methods as well as compressed data for extensive
real-scale tests.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899