Nicholas A. Dembsey

Biography

Education: BS University of Michigan MS University of California, Berkeley PhD University of California, Berkeley In today’s cost-conscious world, ensuring greater life safety and property protection has never been more challenging. To this end, my research focuses on the building performance applications of fire dynamics, fire characteristics of materials, and fire models. I am working with students in the following areas: fire safety of green buildings; develop of new techniques and guidance documents for practicing engineers to measure fire properties of materials; and in the optimization of building assemblies for fire performance, ease of manufacturing and cost effectiveness.

Research Interest

Fire properties of materials via bench-top scale experimentation; Compartment fire dynamics via residential scale experimentation; Evaluation, development and validation of compartment fire models; Performance fire codes; Engineering design tools; Engineering forensic tools