- Author
- Bukowski, R. W. | Shibe, A. J.
- Title
- HAZARD I. Volume 2. Representative Example Case Documentation.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBSIR 87-3603, July 1987, 442 p.
- Distribution
- NOT AVAILABLE FROM: NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICES
- Keywords
- predictive models | computer models; evacuation; fire models; hazard assessment; human behavior; toxicity
- Identifiers
- hazard analysis
- Abstract
- This report describes the first version of a method for predicting the hazards to the occupants of a building involved in a fire. To implement this method, a software package called HAZARD I is provided. It includes a scenario development utility (PRODUCT.ONE); an interactive program for inputting data to the fire model (FINPUT); a data base program (FIREDATA) with files of thermophysical, thermochemical and reference toxicity data; the FAST model for multi-compartment energy and mass transport; a graphics utility for plotting data (FASTPLOT); a detector/sprinkler activation model (DETACT); an evacuation model which includes human behavior (EXITT); and a tenability model (TENAB) which evaluates the impact of the predicted exposure of the occupants in terms of incapacitation by burns. All of the software operates on a personal computer. Volume 2 contains complete documentation of a set of worked example cases and Volume 3 contains a complete copy of the data in the data base.