- Author
- Gwynne, S. M. V. | Muhdi, R. | Davis, J.
- Title
- Development and Validation of a Crawling Model in an Existing Computational Egress Tool.
- Coporate
- Hughes Associates, Inc., Baltimore, MD Auburn Univ., AL
- Report
- Volume 1
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 1. September 3-5, 2007, London, England, 271-282 p., 2007
- Keywords
- egress | evacuation | decision making | human behavior | validation | human factors engineering | fire data | scenarios | design applications | people movement | statistics | computer models | computer programs
- Identifiers
- buildingEXODUS egress model; deterioration of environmental conditions; approach to implementing crawling data into buildingEXODUS; two calculations are made independently of each other and then compared; fire calculations can be made and then implicitly represented within the egress calculation; calculated development of the fire is imported into the egress calculation; incorporation of fire data into egress models; reduction factors derived from the Muhdi data; walking speeds; egress times for crawlers derived from the Nagai data; projected impact on attainable travel speeds of an evacuee being exposed to smoke in buildingEXODUS; test scenarios A.1- C.2 as a result of varying exit widths and crawling reduction factors; buildingEXODUS test cases based on Muhdi's reduction factors; comparison between simulated egress times; physical component of crawling behavior; interaction between the work presented here and a general crawling model