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Fires & Explosions: Analysis & Investigation Techniques

Whether it is a products liability, personal injury or insurance coverage case, attorneys require the understanding on how a cause and origin investigation of a fire of a suspicious (or non-suspicious) nature occurs.† Discussion regarding financial responsibility, product development, and damage evaluation will be conducted using a series of actual litigation or insurance-related examples.
  1. Introduction
  2. US fire statistics
  3. Requirements for conducting a fire investigation
  4. What is basic fire science?
  5. Determining the cause & origin
    1. Background information
    2. Examining the burn pattern
    3. Multiple ignition sources
  6. Interpreting burn patterns
  7. Typical ignition sources
  8. What fuels the fire
  9. Fire & building codes
  10. Case Study: Flashover
  11. Case Study: Electrical Fires - Aluminum Wires
  12. Post-fire indicators
  13. Computer modeling to predict fire spread
  14. Instrumentation
  15. Other examples
  16. Using simulation to illustrate theories