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Author
Hagiwara, I. | Tanaka, T. | Mimura, Y.
Title
Consideration on Common Path Length and Single Stairway. Part 2. Study on the Safety Performance of Exit Provisions.
Coporate
Building Research Inst., Tokyo, Japan
Report
NISTIR 6030, June 1997,
Distribution
Available from National Technical Information Service
Book or Conf
U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 13th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 1. March 13-20, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, Beall, K. A., Editors, 65-77 p., 1997
Keywords
fire safety | fire research | stairways | exits | escape means | evacuation | regulations | occupants
Identifiers
provisions of common path length in the existing regulations; arrangement of means of escape; conditions allowed in case of single stairway; expected number of occupants unable to escape associated with single means of escape; criterion alternative to existing standards on single means of escape