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Author
Galea, E. R. | Wang, Z. | Togher, M. | Jia, F. | Lawrence, P.
Title
Predicting the Likely Impact of Aircraft Post-Crash Fire on Aircraft Evacuation Using Fire and Evacuation Simulation.
Coporate
University of Greenwich, London, England
Report
Paper No. 07/IM/135, October 2007,
Book or Conf
International Fire and Cabin Safety Research Conference, 5th Triennial. Proceedings. October 29-November 1, 2007, Atlantic City, NJ, 1-16 p., 2007
Keywords
fire safety | safety engineering | fire science | aircraft fires | crash fires | impact | postcrash fires | evacuation | fire simulation | computational fluid dynamics | aircraft certification | survivability | fuel fires | people movement | human behavior | toxicity | fire hazards | geometry | fire models | scenarios | survival | statistics | fire fatalities | survivors | flashover
Identifiers
SMARTFIRE; airEXODUS; FAA C-133 cabin test facility; predicted flashover times for the various exit scenarios; average TET, number of fatalities and exit usage derived from 100 repeat simulations; average evacuation statistics for the survivors (averaged over 100 simulations); average evacuation statistics for the fatalities (averaged over 100 simulations)