各位老师，
以下是Dr. William L. Grosshandler的学术报告通知。他将详细介绍NIST关于WTC 911事件的六年事件调查研究。欢迎各位老师踊跃参加。并希望通知各位老师组内同学踊跃参加。
报告人：Dr. William L. Grosshandler
报告时间：2013年10月22日（周二）10:00
报告地点：特种实验楼学术报告厅（二层）
报告题目：NIST Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade
Center Disaster
报告摘要：
This presentation, based upon the final reports issued by U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), describes how on September 11,
2001, after terrorists flew jet-fuel-laden commercial airliners into the
buildings, the aircraft impacts and subsequent fires led to the collapse of
the World Trade Center buildings (WTC 1, WTC 2, and WTC 7) in New York City.
NIST complemented in-house expertise with private sector technical experts;
accumulated copious documents, photographs, and videos of the disaster;
established baseline performance of the buildings; performed computer
simulations of the behavior of each building; combined the knowledge gained
into a probable collapse sequence for each; conducted over a thousand first-
person interviews of building occupants and emergency responders; and
analyzed the evacuation and emergency response operations in the buildings.
The final reports recommend action in the areas of increased structural
integrity, enhanced fire endurance of structures, new methods for fire
resistant design of structures, enhanced active fire protection, improved
building evacuation, improved emergency response, improved procedures and
practices, and education and training.
报告人简历：
Dr. William L. Grosshandler was the Deputy Director for Building and Fire
Research of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) up until his retirement in 2012. Dr.
Grosshandler was responsible for internal operations of the Laboratory,
which deals with construction and materials research, building environment
research, and fire research. Dr. Grosshandler led the NIST investigation of
The Station nightclub (Warwick, RI) fire and was the associate lead
investigator of the National Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the
World Trade Center Disaster.
Dr. Grosshandler received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his appointment at NIST, he
spent three years as the Director of the Thermal Systems Program of the
National Science Foundation. At the same time, he maintained his position as
Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State
University, where he had been since 1976. He has also held visiting
appointments at Factory Mutual Research Corporation (now FM Global) and the
University of Poitiers in France.
Dr. Grosshandler has served on the Board of Directors of the Combustion
Institute, the editorial advisory board of Progress in Energy and Combustion
Science, advisory boards for the Fire Protection Engineering Departments at
the University of Maryland and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Research
Advisory Committee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation, and is active
in the Heat Transfer Division and a Fellow of ASME. He chaired the
International Forum of Fire Research Directors from 2005 to 2011, served on
the Fire Council for Underwriters Laboratory, and for ten years was a member
of the Science Advisory Committee of the National Association of State Fire
Marshals. Dr. Grosshandler is a recipient of two Silver Medals for
meritorious achievement and a Gold Medal for distinguished achievement in
federal service from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
以下是Dr. William L. Grosshandler的学术报告通知。他将详细介绍NIST关于WTC 911事件的六年事件调查研究。欢迎各位老师踊跃参加。并希望通知各位老师组内同学踊跃参加。
报告人：Dr. William L. Grosshandler
报告时间：2013年10月22日（周二）10:00
报告地点：特种实验楼学术报告厅（二层）
报告题目：NIST Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade
Center Disaster
报告摘要：
This presentation, based upon the final reports issued by U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), describes how on September 11,
2001, after terrorists flew jet-fuel-laden commercial airliners into the
buildings, the aircraft impacts and subsequent fires led to the collapse of
the World Trade Center buildings (WTC 1, WTC 2, and WTC 7) in New York City.
NIST complemented in-house expertise with private sector technical experts;
accumulated copious documents, photographs, and videos of the disaster;
established baseline performance of the buildings; performed computer
simulations of the behavior of each building; combined the knowledge gained
into a probable collapse sequence for each; conducted over a thousand first-
person interviews of building occupants and emergency responders; and
analyzed the evacuation and emergency response operations in the buildings.
The final reports recommend action in the areas of increased structural
integrity, enhanced fire endurance of structures, new methods for fire
resistant design of structures, enhanced active fire protection, improved
building evacuation, improved emergency response, improved procedures and
practices, and education and training.
报告人简历：
Dr. William L. Grosshandler was the Deputy Director for Building and Fire
Research of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) up until his retirement in 2012. Dr.
Grosshandler was responsible for internal operations of the Laboratory,
which deals with construction and materials research, building environment
research, and fire research. Dr. Grosshandler led the NIST investigation of
The Station nightclub (Warwick, RI) fire and was the associate lead
investigator of the National Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the
World Trade Center Disaster.
Dr. Grosshandler received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his appointment at NIST, he
spent three years as the Director of the Thermal Systems Program of the
National Science Foundation. At the same time, he maintained his position as
Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State
University, where he had been since 1976. He has also held visiting
appointments at Factory Mutual Research Corporation (now FM Global) and the
University of Poitiers in France.
Dr. Grosshandler has served on the Board of Directors of the Combustion
Institute, the editorial advisory board of Progress in Energy and Combustion
Science, advisory boards for the Fire Protection Engineering Departments at
the University of Maryland and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Research
Advisory Committee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation, and is active
in the Heat Transfer Division and a Fellow of ASME. He chaired the
International Forum of Fire Research Directors from 2005 to 2011, served on
the Fire Council for Underwriters Laboratory, and for ten years was a member
of the Science Advisory Committee of the National Association of State Fire
Marshals. Dr. Grosshandler is a recipient of two Silver Medals for
meritorious achievement and a Gold Medal for distinguished achievement in
federal service from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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