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Author
Tanaka, T. | Hagiwara, I. | Mimura, Y.
Title
Consideration on Required Number of Exits in a Room.
Report
Chapter 6,
Book or Conf
Evacuation From Fires. Volume 2. Chapter 6. Applied Fire Science in Transition Series, Baywood Publishing Co. Inc., Amityville, NY, DeCicco, P. R., Editors, 109-122 p., 2002
Keywords
evacuation | exits | escape means | regulations | occupants | equations
Identifiers
requirements of two or more exits in existing regulations; objective of requirement for two or more exits; required number of means of escape: Australia, France, Japan, U.K., U.S.A; probability that an exit is blocked by fire; rooms having only one exit; long and narrow rooms; ordinary rooms; rooms having two or more exits; when "available escape time" = "escape time"; when "available escape time" > "escape time"