- Author
-
Cooper, L. Y.
- Title
- Concept for Estimating Available Safe Egress Time in Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
-
Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 5,
135-144,
1983
- Keywords
-
egress
- Identifiers
- safe egress time
- Abstract
- Available Safe Egress Time (ASET) in enclosure fires is defined as the time between fire detection and the onset of conditions which are hazardous to continued human occupancy. A general technique for estimating this time interval is introduced.