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Author
Gwynne, S. M. V. | Muhdi, R. | Davis, J.
Title
Development and Validation of a Crawling Model in an Existing Computational Egress Tool.
Coporate
Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD Auburn Univ., AL
Report
Volume 1,
Book or Conf
Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 1. September 3-5, 2007, London, England, 271-282 p., 2007
Keywords
egress | evacuation | decision making | human behavior | validation | human factors engineering | fire data | scenarios | design applications | people movement | statistics | computer models | computer programs
Identifiers
buildingEXODUS egress model; deterioration of environmental conditions; approach to implementing crawling data into buildingEXODUS; two calculations are made independently of each other and then compared; fire calculations can be made and then implicitly represented within the egress calculation; calculated development of the fire is imported into the egress calculation; incorporation of fire data into egress models; reduction factors derived from the Muhdi data; walking speeds; egress times for crawlers derived from the Nagai data; projected impact on attainable travel speeds of an evacuee being exposed to smoke in buildingEXODUS; test scenarios A.1- C.2 as a result of varying exit widths and crawling reduction factors; buildingEXODUS test cases based on Muhdi's reduction factors; comparison between simulated egress times; physical component of crawling behavior; interaction between the work presented here and a general crawling model