- Author
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Kady, R. A.
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Gwynne, S.
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Davis, J.
- Title
- Review of the Sources of Occupant Performance Data Used in Building Evacuation Models.
- Coporate
- Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA
Hughes Associates, Inc., Bolder, CO
Auburn Univ., AL
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 4th. Proceedings. July 13-15, 2009,
Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England,
Cambridge, UK,
471-480 p.,
2009
- Keywords
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human behavior
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evacuation
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occupants
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occupant response
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people movement
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smoke
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egress
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fire tests
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stairways
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escape means
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fire models
- Identifiers
- occupant performance data; movement speed; reviewed evacuation models that specify occupant movement sources; unimpeded and adjustable speeds (speed vs. density); empirical and constant speeds; speeds in smoke conditions; hydraulic flow speeds; fire tests and incident reports; human behavior and performance characteristics in evacuation; default values of movement input data to building evacuation models and their sources; movement/condition type