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  1. Kapahi, A., McKinnon, M., and Lattimer, B., “Evaluation of Standard and Real Fire Exposures on Thermal Response of Rail Car Floor Assembly,” Fire and Materials, 2019.
  2. Hodges, J.L., Lattimer, B.Y., and Luxbacher, K., “Compartment Fire Predictions using Transpose Convolutional Neural Networks,” Fire Safety Journal, 102854, 2019.
  3. Hodges, J.L. and Lattimer, B.Y., “Wildland Fire Spread Modeling using Convolutional Neural Networks,” Fire Technology, pp.1-28, 2019.
  4. Yang, F., Hodges, J.L., Rippe, C.L., Lattimer, B.Y., “Methodology for Material Property Determination,” Fire and Materials, 2019.
  5. Mills, R.J., Lattimer, B.Y., Case, S.W., and Mouritz, A.P., “The Influence of Sensitization and Corrosion on Creep of 5083-H116,” Corrosion Science, Vol. 143, pp.1-9, 2018.
  6. Lattimer, B., and McKinnon, M., “A Review of Fire Growth and Fully-Developed Fires in Railcars,” Fire and Materials, 42(6), pp. 603-619, 2018.
  7. Haghighat, A., Luxbacher, K., and Lattimer, B., “Development of a Methodology for Interface-Boundary Selection in the Multiscale Road Tunnel Fire Simulations,” Fire Technology, 54(4), pp.1029-1066, 2018.
  8. Hodges, J., Rippe, C., Case, S., and Lattimer, B., “Predicting the Structural Response of a Compartment Fire using Full-field Heat Transfer Measurements,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 92, pp. 471-479, 2017.
  9. Rippe, C., Case, S., and Lattimer, B., “Modeling Post-Fire Behavior of Aluminum Structural Components using a Maximum Temperature Approach,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 91, pp. 561-567, 2017.
  10. Nahid, M., Lattimer, B., and Sotelino, E., “Thermo-Structural Response of Highway Bridge Structures with Tub Girder and Plate Girder,” Bridge Engineering, Vol 22, Issue 10, 2017.
  11. Kim, J.H., Jo, S., and Lattimer, B.Y., "Feature Selection for Intelligent Firefighting Robot Classification of Fire, Smoke, and Thermal Reflections Using Thermal Infrared Images," Journal of Sensors, doi:10.1155/2016/8410731, 2016.
  12. Starr, J. and Lattimer, B., “Evidential Sensor Fusion of LWIR Stereo Vision and 3D-LIDAR for Rangefinding in Fire Environments,” Fire Technology, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1961-1983, 2017.
  13. McNeil, J. and Lattimer, B., “Robotic Fire Suppression through Autonomous Feedback Control,” Fire Technology, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp.1171-1199, 2017.
  14. McNeil, J. and Lattimer, B., “Real-time Classification of Water Spray and Leaks for Robotic Firefighting,” International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2016.
  15. McNeil, J. and Lattimer, B., “Autonomous Fire Suppression System for Use in High and Low Visibility Environments by Visual Servoing,” Fire Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s10694-016-0564-8, 26p, 2016.
  16. Chevali, V.S., Summers, P., Cholewa, N., Afaghi Khatibi A., Feih, S., Lattimer, B.Y., Case, S.W., and Mouritz, A.P., “Fire Structural Modelling and Testing of Welded Aluminum Plate,” Fire and Materials, Vol. 40, pp. 48-64, 2016.
  17. Cholewa, N., Summers, P.T., Feih, S., Mouritz, A.P., Lattimer, B.Y., and Case, S.W., “A Technique for Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Response Measurement using 3-D Infrared Thermography Digital Image Correlation (TDIC),” Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 56, Issue 2, pp. 145-164, 2016.
  18. Vega, T., Lattimer, B., and Diller, T., “Temperature Predictions using Hybrid Heat Flux Gage Measurements,” Fire Technology, Vol. 51, pp. 723-746, 2016.
  19. Knabe, C., et al., “Team VALOR’s ESCHER: A Novel Electromechanical Biped for the DARPA Robotics Challenge,” Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 34, Issue 5, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.21697.
  20. Wasson, R., Nahid, M., Diller, T.E., and Lattimer, B. Y., “Influence of a Ceiling on Fire Plume Velocity and Temperature,” Fire Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s10694-015-0529-3, 24p., 2015.
  21. Summers, P.T., Chen, Y., Rippe, C.M., Allen, B., Mouritz, A.P., Case, S.W., and Lattimer, B.Y., “Overview of Aluminum Alloy Mechanical Properties During and After Fires,” Fire Science Reviews, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2015.
  22. Rippe, C., and Lattimer, B.Y., “Full-field Surface Heat Flux Measurement Using Non-Intrusive IR Thermography,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 78, pp. 238-250, 2015.
  23. Kim, J.H. and Lattimer, B.Y., “Real-time probabilistic classification of fire and smoke using thermal imagery for intelligent firefighting robot,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 72, pp. 40-49, 2015.
  24. Vega, T., Wasson, R.A., Lattimer, B.Y., and Diller, T.E., “Partitioning measurements of convective and radiative heat flux,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 84, pp. 827-838, 2015.
  25. Summers, P. T., Mouritz, A. P., Case, S. W., & Lattimer, B. Y., “Microstructure-based modeling of residual yield strength and strain hardening after fire exposure of aluminum alloy 5083-H116,” Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol.632, 14-28, 2015.
  26. Kim, J., Starr, J., and Lattimer, B., “Firefighting Robot Stereo Infrared Vision and Radar Sensor Fusion for Imaging through Fire Smoke,” Fire Technology, Vol. 51, Issue 4, pp. 823-845, 2015. 
  27. Khatibi, A. A., Kandare, E., Feih, S., Lattimer, B.Y., Case, S.W., and Mouritz, A.P., “Finite Element Modelling of Tensile Deformation and Failure of Aluminum Plate Exposed to Fire,” Computational Materials Science, Vol. 95, pp. 242-249, 2014.
  28. Summers, P., Case, S., and Lattimer, B., “Residual Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloys AA5083-H116 and AA6061-T651 after Fire,” Engineering Structures, Vol. 76, pp.49-61, 2014.
  29. Nahid, M., and Lattimer, B., “Modeling Thermal Response of Steel-Concrete Floor Systems in a Furnace,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 68, pp. 100-108, 2014.
  30. Agarwal, G. and Lattimer, B., “Physicochemical, Kinetic, and Energetic Investigation of Coal-Biomass Mixture Pyrolysis,” Fuel Processing Technology, Vol. 124, August, pp.174-187, 2014.
  31. Vega, T., Lattimer, B., and Diller, T., “Fire Thermal Boundary Condition Measurement using a Hybrid Heat Flux Gage,” Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 61, pp. 127-137, 2013.
  32. Starr, J. and Lattimer, B., “Evaluation of Navigation Sensors in Fire Smoke Environments,” Fire Technology, Vol. 50, Issue 6, pp.1459-1481, 2014.  2015 Harmathy Award for Best Student Led Paper
  33. Brown, S.L. and Lattimer, B. Y., “Transient Gas-to-Particle Heat Transfer Measurements in a Spouted Bed,” Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 44, pp. 883-892, 2013.
  34. Agarwal, G. and Lattimer, B., “Method for Measuring the Standard Heat of Decomposition of Materials,” Thermochimica Acta, Vol. 545, pp. 34-47, 2012.
  35. Kanholy, S., Chodak, J., Lattimer, B., and Battaglia, F., “Modeling and Predicting Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed Dynamics to Capture Nonuniform Inlet Conditions,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 134, Issue 11, 8p., 2012.
  36. Lattimer, B.Y., Mealy, C., Beitel, J., “Heat Fluxes and Flame Lengths from Fires Under Ceilings,” Fire Technology, Vol. 49, Issue 2, pp. 269-291, 2013.
  37. Summers, P.T., Lattimer, B.Y., Feih, S., and Case, S., “Predicting Compression Failure of Composite Laminates during Fire,” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 43, Issue 5, pp. 773-782, 2012.
  38. Summers, P.T., Lattimer, B.Y., Case, S., and Feih, S., “Sensitivity of Thermo-structural Model for Composite Laminates in Fire”, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 43, Issue 5, pp. 783-792, 2012.  
  39. Fogle, E., Lattimer, B.Y., Feih, S., Kandare, E., Mouritz, A, and Case, S. “Compression Failure of Aluminum Columns during Fire Exposure,” Engineering Structures, Vol. 34, pp.155-16, 2012.
  40. Kandare, E., Griffin, G., Feih, S., Gibson, A.G., Lattimer, B.Y., Mouritz, A.P., “Fire Structural Modeling of Fibre-Polymer Laminates Protected with an Intumescent Coating,” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 43, Issue 5, pp, 793-802, 2012.
  41. Goodrich, T. and Lattimer, B., “Fire Decomposition Effects on Sandwich Composite Materials,” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 43, Issue 5, pp. 803-813, 2012.
  42. Agarwal, G., Lattimer, B.Y., Ekkad, S., and Vandsburger, U., “Experimental study on solid circulation in a multiple jet fluidized bed”, AICHE Journal, Vol. 58, Issue 10, pp. 3003-3015, 2012.
  43. Summers, P., Lattimer, B., and Case, S., “Compressive Failure of Composite Plates during One-Sided Heating,” Composite Structures, Vol. 93, No. 11, pp. 2817-2825, 2011.
  44. Agarwal, G., Lattimer, B., Vandsburger, U., and Ekkad, S., “Influence of Multiple Gas Inlet Jets on Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics using Particle Image Velocimetry and Digital Image Analysis,” Powder Technology, Vol. 214, No. 1, pp.122-134, November 2011.
  45. Feih, S., Kandare, E., Lattimer, B.Y., and Mouritz, A.P., “Structural Analysis of Compression Deformation and Failure of Aluminum in Fire,” Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 137, Issue 7, pp. 728-738, 2011. 
  46. Lattimer, B.Y., Ouellette, J., and Trelles, J., “Thermal Response of Composite Materials to Elevated Temperatures,” Fire Technology, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 823-850, 2011. 
  47. Lattimer, B.Y., Ouellette, J., and Trelles, J., “Measuring Properties for Material Decomposition Modeling”, Fire and Materials, Vol. 35, Issue 1, pp.1-17, 2011.
  48. Kandare, E., Feih, S. Lattimer, B.Y., Mouritz, A.P., “Larson-Miller Failure Modelling of Aluminum in Fire,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol.41, No.12, pp.3091-3099, 2010.  
  49. Goodrich, T., Nawaz, N., Feih, S., Lattimer, B.Y., and Mouritz, A.P., “High Temperature Properties and Thermal Recovery of Balsa Wood,” Journal of Wood Science, Vol. 56, No.6, pp.437-443, 2010.
  50. Cain, C. and Lattimer, B.Y., “Measuring Properties for Material Decomposition Modeling,” Journal of ASTM International, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2010.
  51. Kandare, E., Feih, S., Kootsookos, A., Mathys, Z., Lattimer, B.Y., Mouritz, A.P., “Creep-Based Life Prediction Modelling of Aluminum in Fire,” Materials Science and Engineering Part A., Vol. 527, Issues 4-5, pp.1185-1193, 2009.  
  52. Mouritz, A., Feih, S., Kandare, E., Mathys, Z, Gibson, A.G., Des Jardin, P., Case, S., Lattimer, B., “Review of Fire Structural Modelling of Polymer Composites,” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 40, Issue 12, pp.1800-1814, 2009.
  53. Asaro, R.J., Lattimer, B.Y., and Steele, G., “Thermo-physical Performance of a Fire Protective Coating for Naval Ship Structures,” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp.11-18, 2009.
  54. Asaro, R.J., Lattimer, B.Y., Ramroth, W., “Structural Response of FRP Composites during Fire,” Composite Structures, Vol. 87, Issue 4, pp. 382-393, 2008.
  55. Lattimer, B.Y. and Cutonilli, J., “Application of a Multistage Compartment Fire Model in Predicting the Heat Release Rate History of Railcar Fires,” ASHRAE Transactions, NY-08-024, Vol. 114, Part 1, 2008.
  56. Lattimer, B.Y. and Trelles, J., "Foam Spread over a Liquid Pool," Fire Safety Journal, 42 (4), pp.249-264, 2007.
  57. Trelles, J. and Lattimer, B., "Modeling Thermal Degradation of Composite Materials," Fire and Materials, Vol. 31, pp.147-171, 2007. 
  58. Lua, J., J. O’Brien, C. Key, Y. Wu, and B. Y. Lattimer, “A Temperature and Mass Dependent Model for Fire Response Prediction of Marine Composites,” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 37 (7), 1024-1039, 2006.
  59. Lattimer, B.Y. and Ouellette, J., "Properties of Composite Materials for Thermal Analysis involving Fires," Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 37 (7), pp. 1068-1081, 2006.
  60. Lattimer, B.Y., Vandsburger, U., and Roby, R., "Species Transport from Post-Flashover Fires," Fire Technology, Vol. 41, pp. 235-254, 2005, 2006 Bigglestone Award for paper of the year in Fire Technology.
Brian Lattimer

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