- Author
-
Stahl, F. I.
- Title
- BFIRES-II: A Behavior Based Computer Simulation of Emergency Egress During Fires.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
-
Fire Technology,
Vol. 18,
No. 1,
49-65,
February 1982
- Book or Conf
- National Fire Protection Association. Analytic Problems in Firesafety: Rational Firesafety Design. NFPA Research. May 1980.,
National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA,
Washington, DC,
1-24 p.,
1982
- Keywords
-
building codes
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building fires
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emergencies
|
egress
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fire research
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human behavior
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modeling
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human performance
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computers
|
occupants
- Identifiers
- BFIRES-II; computer aided design; pedestrian movement; regulatory process; simulation of human behavior; computer simulation; emergency egress
- Abstract
- This paper acquaints the reader with BFIREs, a computer program designed to simulate the emergency egress behavior of building occupants during fires. Use of the program is illustrated, and findings concerning the simulation's validity are presented.