Resources
Resources included with this course:
Inspection Data Collection Forms
List of all forms
Checklist (pdf)
Detailed Forms (pdf)
Reference Data
These links will take you to data within the course material.
Bibliography
The bibliography is a comprehensive list of publications related to vehicle fire safety, design and investigation. Some but not all of the publications have been referenced within the course.
Glossary
For definitions of words common in vehicle fire investigation and research, click here to see the glossary.
Standards
For a listing of standards relevant to vehicle design with respect to fire investigation, click here.
System Compatibility
Navigation
Contact
Resources available on the internet:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
The NHTSA Vehicle Crash Test Database contains engineering data measured during various types of research.https://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/database/veh/veh.htm
Motor Vehicle Fire Research Institute (MVFRI)
Through the MVFRI website, there is access to reports of funded research on many topics related to vehicle fire.Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
The principal international organization for technical paper presentation and publication in the ground vehicle industry. The website has a search engine for technical papers.National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
NFPA publishes "NFPA 921: A Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigation," that includes a substantial section for vehicle fires, "NFPA 556: Guide on Methods for Evaluating Fire Hazard to Occupants of Passenger Road Vehicles" (2020), and other documents with material flammability properties.Neptune Engineering, Inc. (Vehicle data)
This commercial site provides vehicle data (Motor Vehicles Manufacturer data), crash test data and reports, and a Vehicle Interchange List (a list of vehicles and their “sisters and clones”; similar vehicles that may have different Makes and model years).
Contact
If you would like to report a problem with program functionality, or have suggestions for additional resources to include, please send email to: vehfire@u.washington.edu.
Course version, authors and acknowledgements