Near future
No Result
View All Result
October 3, 2023
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Transports
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+
Understand, anticipate, improve the future.
CES2023 / Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine
Near future
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Transports
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+

Understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result
Environment , Technology

A fireproof blanket for the whole house against fires

Wrap an entire house in a very thin fire-retardant blanket to save it from an extensive fire? It is the goal of this joint research.

November 5, 2019
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
⚪ 3 minutes
Share35Pin4Tweet12SendShare3ShareShare2
fireproof blanket

READ IN:

A team of researchers from Western Reserve University found a way to protect the houses from fire by wrapping them in a huge aluminum blanket. after a series of tests demonstrating the feasibility of this method, the researchers hope that their discoveries can help prevent damage caused by forest fires, an unfortunately growing phenomenon.

The lead author of the study on the fireproof blanket for homes, Takahashi Fumiaki , is a professor at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio and collaborated with NASA's Glenn Research Center and the United States Forest Service for this research.

The study was published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, and find it here.

The images of the recent, terrible fires in California (a phenomenon also frequent in Italy, especially in the hot months, and destined to increase with the global warming) pushed Takahashi to look for new solutions and improve those found: a first 'blanket' with a full structure was already on the market.

Although unofficial reports existed, scientific evidence was lacking to support the ability of fire blankets to protect buildings. Takahashi and his team tried to remedy it through a series of experiments.

The article continues after the related links

Dryad: when the AI ​​copes (successfully) with forest fires

US forests, surreal proposals: "chopping down trees to capture more CO2"

The tests

fireproof blanket
The hut used for testing

The tests tested the ability of different blanket materials to protect structures from fire. The team started with pieces of wood exposed to fires in one room, then wooden panels gradually getting bigger and finally an entire shed.

"Fire exposure tests determined how well a fire blanket protected various wooden structures. We tested four types of fabric materials: aramid, fiberglass, amorphous silica and pre-oxidized carbon, each with and without aluminum surface. ".

  • fireproof blanket

The best performing blankets are made of fiberglass or amorphous silica laminated with a heat reflective aluminum sheet. The material is currently strong enough to protect a building isolated from a brief fire attack, providing up to 10 minutes of protection. Other developments are clearly needed to obtain a blanket suitable for extreme scenarios.

"The implications of our conclusions imply that the technical community, the general public and firefighters must work together to take a step-by-step approach to the effective application of this technology."

Tags: Forestsfireglobal warming

Latest news

  • LK-99, new episode: is it really superconductive at room temperature?
  • Comment la CVP Impack Machine de Sparck Technologies peut Revolutionner l'Industrie de l'Emballage
  • Nobel Prize for Medicine to the creators of the mRNA techniques behind the Covid vaccines
  • SciMatch: take a selfie and meet your soulmate
  • The future glucose monitoring? A new, ingenious sweat sensor
  • From death to passion: if spider venom overcomes erectile dysfunction
  • Getting old? No, thanks: the future of longevity between research and speculation
  • Videogames and photorealism: increasingly thin border between game and reality
  • This is how a war between humans and artificial intelligence would end
  • The alarm of Japanese scientists: microplastics also in the clouds


GPT Chat Megaeasy!

Concrete guide for those approaching this artificial intelligence tool, also designed for the school world: many examples of applications, usage indications and ready-to-use instructions for training and interrogating Chat GPT.

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff

Enter the Telegram channel of Futuroprossimo, click here. Or follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon e LinkedIn.

FacebookTwitterInstagramTelegramLinkedInMastodonPinterestTikTok

The daily tomorrow.


Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Gadgets
  • concepts
  • Design
  • Medicine
  • Spazio
  • Robotica
  • Work
  • Transports
  • Energy
  • Edition Francaise
  • Deutsche Ausgabe
  • Japanese version
  • English Edition
  • Portuguese Edition
  • Read more
  • Spanish edition

Subscribe to our newsletter

  • The Editor
  • Advertising on FP
  • Privacy Policy

© 2023 Near future - Creative Commons License
This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

No Result
View All Result
Understand, anticipate, improve the future.
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Transports
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+