{"id":1605,"date":"2013-05-01T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artscistaging1.case.edu\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2017-01-24T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:04:05","slug":"design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-new-limiting-oxygen-index-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-new-limiting-oxygen-index-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Design, fabrication and testing of a new limiting oxygen index device"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Terence Southard with Roger Quinn, Dept. of Mechanical &amp; Aerospace Engineering<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022533\/Southard-Quinn-2013-1.pdf\">Design, fabrication and testing of a new limiting oxygen index device<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022352\/Southard-Quinn-2013-1-1.pdf\">[paper]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) is one of an array of commonly used metrics for the rating of material flammability. \u00a0Although devices to measure this value are commercially available, this work aims to design, fabricate, and validate an extension of these commercially available devices to a wider parameter space of interest to fundamental fire research. \u00a0A literature review of current designs will be performed. \u00a0The student will then design and build an improved device with both commercially available and custom fabricated parts where appropriate. \u00a0An analysis of the flow field and heat transfer within the device will be studied to understand the effect of sample position, forced convective flow rates, and buoyant flame entrainment. The device will be validated through a series of representative test cycles to demonstrate the capabilities of the improved design and compare with previous published data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Southard with Roger Quinn, Dept. of Mechanical &amp; Aerospace Engineering<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022533\/Southard-Quinn-2013-1.pdf\">Design, fabrication and testing of a new limiting oxygen index device<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/176\/2013\/05\/15022352\/Southard-Quinn-2013-1-1.pdf\">[paper]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) is one of an array of commonly used metrics for the rating of material flammability. \u00a0Although devices to measure this value are commercially available, this work aims to design, fabricate, and validate an extension of these commercially available devices to a wider parameter space of interest to fundamental fire research. \u00a0A literature review of current designs will be performed. \u00a0The student will then design and build an improved device with both commercially available and custom fabricated parts where appropriate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/design-fabrication-and-testing-of-a-new-limiting-oxygen-index-device\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Design, fabrication and testing of a new limiting oxygen index device<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[45,1,39,12,67],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}