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Mr. Hetrick applies his knowledge of fire protection engineering principles and fire science to the study and investigation of fires and explosions. Mr. Hetrick's practice area includes origin and cause investigation of fire and explosion accidents, the analysis of building fire and life safety systems, and the evaluation of product liability issues. Mr. Hetrick specializes in fire science, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. He performs investigations of consumer products, appliances, heavy equipment, passenger vehicles, and properties in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.Mr. Hetrick is well versed in the design, inspection, testing, and maintenance of automatic fire and life safety systems. He has experience with automatic fire sprinkler systems, commercial kitchen fire suppression systems, automatic fire detection and alarm systems, and building code compliance evaluations. Mr. Hetrick is experienced in the design and execution of bench-scale to full-scale fire tests and is skilled in the design, fabrication and use of thermal and fire test instrumentation. He is also experienced in the validation of theoretical fire, heat transfer, and fluid flow models through experimental studies.Mr. Hetrick has extensive experience in total flooding clean extinguishing agent technologies and applications. He has worked with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Air Force Research Lab in efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of candidate halon-replacement agents.Mr. Hetrick also has experience in the natural gas pipeline industry in evaluating methods for resolving unknown pipeline features and validating the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) for gas transmission lines.In his academic career, Mr. Hetrick served as a teaching assistant and specialized in the experimental characterization of material combustion with the cone calorimeter, fire propagation apparatus, and large-scale combustion products collector.