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Author
Li, J. | Chow, W. K.
Title
Review on Emergency Evacuation Time Estimation for Performance-Based Fire Safety Design.
Coporate
Beijing University of Technology, China Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Journal
Journal of Applied Fire Science, Vol. 15, No. 2, 147-163, 2006-2007
Keywords
evacuation | emergencies | fire safety | design applications | evacuation time | scenarios | equations | hazard assessment | people movement | flow rate | density effects | computational | stairways | performance based design | egress
Identifiers
Required Safe Egress Time (RSET); Available Safe Egress Time (ASET); early British works; crowd density; movement speed; Russian works in late 1960's; works by Fruin (1971); works by Pauls (1970's); works in the 1980's; works in the 1990's; recommendations for capacity and movement speeds on stairs; recommendations for capacity and movement speeds on level surfaces