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R. Thomas Long Jr. is a Senior Managing Engineer in Exponent’s Thermal Sciences practice. He specializes in fire protection engineering and the engineering analysis of fires and explosions. He applies fire protection engineering principles and tools including material fire performance ignition of liquid and solid fuels and fire propagation and growth modeling to the engineering analysis investigation and prevention of fires and explosions and determination of their origin and cause. He also applies fire protection engineering to the design and evaluation of fire safe environments. Mr. Long has investigated numerous losses ranging from fires in residential occupancies to explosions in refineries and chemical processing plants. Mr. Long has also investigated fires involving numerous types of mechanical equipment and fires onboard marine vessels.
Mr. Long also provides consultation on fire detection and suppression system design and evaluation as well as fire hazard risk assessment. He also applies Fire Protection Engineering principles and tools to the review and evaluation of nationally and internationally accepted building and fire code requirements including those published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Building Officials and Code Administrators International (BOCA). | 