Several thermodynamics computer codes have been shown to be useful in fire/explosion investigations, particularly in reconstruction analysis involving chemical mixtures. These include CHETAH (ASTM), CECTRP (NASA-Lewis), BLAKE (DoD) and TIGER (DoE/DoD). Applications include the estimation of basic fuel material properties (e.g., heat of forma tion, heat capacity, and entropy) and hazard properties such as heat of reaction, sensitivi ty, flame temperature, reaction product compositions, explosion pressure and Chapman- Jouguet detonation parameters.
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