Episode 40: Fire Testing
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SwRI fire testing provides critical information to manufacturers and consumers, making our homes and our world safer. In SwRI burn labs, fire experts unleash walls of flames to test everything from electronics and sofas to batteries, gas tanks and much more. Through explosions and infernos, they are evaluating the performance of construction materials, textiles and products to find out if they pose a fire risk. They also evaluate fire safety systems to make sure they are up to standard and can properly extinguish flames. In this episode, we discuss their important work and find out what piece of furniture in all of our homes poses the biggest fire risk. Listen now as SwRI Director of Fire Technology Dr. Matthew Blais discusses safe, controlled fire testing to evaluate products, materials and systems.
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