Haley Hostetter

Clemson University | CU · Department of Civil Engineering

This communication presents a short review of chatbot technology and preliminary findings from comparing two recent chatbots, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, in the context of fire engineering by evaluating their responses in handling fire safety-related queries. A diverse range of fire engineering questions and scenarios were created and exami...

People with intellectual disability are vulnerable to building fires. Yet, they continue to be one of the most underrepresented groups in evacuation research. To bridge this gap, this study presents one of the very few analyses of building evacuation for people with intellectual disability. The purpose of this study is to collect data and determine...

9 This paper sheds light on civil facilities that home the underrepresented and overlooked population 10 with mental illnesses. More specifically, this paper examines the primary architectural engineering 11 features of psychiatric hospitals from the lens of fire hazards. Psychiatric hospitals rose in 12 popularity in the 19 th century for individu...

Assessing the ability of reinforced concrete (RC) columns to withstand the effects of fire is a multifaceted and intricate problem due to the various factors that influence their fire response. As such, engineers may find it challenging to precisely predict such fire resistance. While some codal provisions exist and fire testing/advanced modeling c...

Concrete, encountering harsh conditions such as fire, is prone to damage. One of the most critical ones is spalling, and this tragic event continues to be a challenging area of research. A thorough examination of the available literature reveals the difficulty of anticipating spalling. As a result, this work proposes a nomogram as a tool to predict...

This paper presents preliminary results to describe the fire-induced spalling of concrete using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). One thousand fire tests were collected from the literature consisting of twenty-two different mechanical, environmental, material, and geometrical parameters, creating the largest spalling database (up to date)....

Due to the superior properties of concrete, structural members made of concrete often satisfy fire requirements specified in codes and standards without special installations or the use of external insulation. A closer examination into fire codal provisions shows that they are primarily founded for new constructions or that which does not suffer fr...

People with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable groups involved in building fires. According to U.S. Fire Administration, an estimated 700 home fires involve people with physical disabilities each year, while over 1700 involve those with mental health disorders. Despite this, there is very little evacuation research for the disabled populat...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a computational technique that exploits hidden patterns between seemingly unrelated parameters to draw solution(s) to a given phenomenon. From this view, we believe that AI has the highest potential to deliver unique and modern solutions to the fire engineering community, noting that: 1) fire spans multiple fields (i...