FireDOC Search

Author
Yaping, H. | Brennan, P.
Title
On Quantifying Perceptions of Smoke.
Coporate
Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Book or Conf
Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 1st. Proceedings. August 31-September 2, 1998, Textflow Ltd., Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Shields, J., Editors, 611-620 p., 1998
Keywords
human behavior | performance based codes | fire safety | smoke | algorithms | visibility | fire models | smoke layers | optical density | thickness | scenarios | equations
Identifiers
smoke aerosol mass concentration; fire type (smoldering or flaming); sign illuminations (light-emitting or light-reflecting); category of smoke density and the corresponding visibility region; smoke categorisation criteria in terms of mass fraction of aerosols (g/m²); flow chart for determining smoke density category; building layout for fire simulation; predicted times of smoke detector activation