- Author
- Ling, W. C. T. | Williamson, R. B.
- Title
- Use of Probabilistic Networks for Analysis of Smoke Spread and the Egress of People in Buildings.
- Coporate
- City Polytechnic of Hong Kong California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- International Association for Fire Safety Science. Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. 1st International Symposium. October 7-11, 1985, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., NY, Gaithersburg, MD, Grant, C. E.; Pagni, P. J., Editors, 953-962 p., 1986
- Keywords
- egress | fire safety | occupants
- Abstract
- This paper focuses on the use of a network analysis approach to solve the fire safety problem associated with the spread of smoke and the probability of escape by the occupants before the fire and/or smoke blocks their path. Many random factors affecting smoke production and spread can be accounted for by coupling each smoke spread network to a given fire spread network. Smoke spread is examined for different fire scenarios, and the occupants' egress problem is treated as a dynamic network flow problem for a given fire scenario. The time to detection and to untenable conditions, as calculated from the smoke spread network, determine the time period of the dynamic network under consideration.