Download or read book Occupant Behavior in Building Fires written by Arthur I. Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occupant Behavior in Building Fires Classic Reprint written by Arthur I. Rubin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Occupant Behavior in Building Fires Fire safety in buildings is important in building design and the formulation of codes and standards. However, an examination of the information concerning the needs of occupants in fire emergencies (as Opposed to ensuring a degree of structural integrity for the building) indicates that the scientific information base is woefully inadequate. The increasing prominence of high rise buildings having many occupants intensifies the need for better information about the behavior of occupants during fire emergencies. Fire researchers have indicated that it is often not feasible to evacuate buildings because of time constraints. Instead, designers use techniques such as safe areas within buildings and requiring people to respond differentially, based on their particular location. This approach emphasizes communications and warning systems to transmit messages. These systems such as loud noises or blinking lights should be designed to take advantage of the usual responses made by pe0p1e. Occupants can actively be a part of the fire warning and fighting system instead of being unwilling victims. This possibility is pursued and a human factors approach is taken to suggest some means of better understanding the capabilities of occupants. Key Words: Disaster research; high rise building fires; occupant safety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Occupant Behavior in Building Fires written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modeling Human Behavior During Building Fires written by Erica D. Kuligowski and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to reevaluate our current egress modeling techniques and advocate for the inclusion of a comprehensive conceptual model of occupant behavior during building fires. The paper begins by describing the current state of evacuation modeling of human behavior in fires and identifying gaps in current behavioral techniques. The second part of the paper outlines a general process model for occupant response to physical and social cues in a building fire event.
Download or read book SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire written by SFPE and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event. The Second Edition of SFPE's Engineering Guide: Human Behavior in Fire provides a common introduction to this field for the broad fire safety community: fire protection engineers/fire safety engineers, human behavior scientists/researchers, design professionals, and code authorities. The public benefits from consistent understanding of the factors that influence the responses and behaviors of people when threatened by fire and the application of reliable methodologies to evaluate and estimate human response in buildings and structures. This Guide also aims to lessen the uncertainties in the "people components" of fire safety and allow for more refined analysis with less reliance on arbitrary safety factors. As with fire science in general, our knowledge of human behavior in fire is growing, but is still characterized by uncertainties that are traceable to both limitation in the science and unfamiliarity by the user communities. The concepts for development of evacuation scenarios for performance-based designs and the technical methods to estimate evacuation response are reviewed with consideration to the limitation and uncertainty of the methods. This Guide identifies both quantitative and qualitative information that constitutes important consideration prior to developing safety factors, exercising engineering judgment, and using evacuation models in the practical design of buildings and evacuation procedures. Besides updating material in the First Edition, this revision includes new information on: Incapacitating Effects of Fire Effluent & Toxicity Analysis Methods Occupant Behavior Scnearios Movement Models and Behavioral Models Egress Model Selection, Verification, and Validation Estimation of Uncertainty and Use of Safety Factors Enhancing Human Response to Emergencies & Notification of Messaging The prediction of human behavior during a fire emergency is one of the most challenging areas of fire protection engineering. Yet, understanding and considering human factors is essential to designing effective evacuation systems, ensuring safety during a fire and related emergency events, and accurately reconstructing a fire.
Download or read book Nist Technical Note 1664 written by U.s. Department of Commerce and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The level of safety that a building affords occupants during a fire is determined in one of two ways: 1) the use of prescriptive codes and 2) the use of performance-based codes or design. In the first case, an engineer consults a set of building and/or fire codes to ensure that the building has the required number and width of exits, appropriate number and spacing of suppression and detection systems, etc. However, very few of these regulations are based on a scientific understanding of how occupants will use the building and take action during an emergency (i.e., occupant behavior). In the second case, an engineer determines whether the time when untenable conditions develop in the building (ASET or available safe egress time) exceeds the time needed for occupants to evacuate the building or a portion of the building (RSET or required safe egress time). Engineers use tools ranging in sophistication from back-of-the-envelope evacuation calculations to computer-based evacuation simulation models. However, due to a lack of data on occupant behavior during fire emergencies, these tools often simplify each evacuation scenario such that occupant behavior is mostly ignored and only the time required for occupant movement is accounted for.
Download or read book Occupant Behavior and Evacuation During the Chicago Cook County Administration Building Fire written by Guylene Proulx and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fire in the unsprinklered 36-story Cook County Administration Building on Friday, October 17, 2003, resulted in 6 fatalities and a dozen people injured. A human behavior study using a questionnaire survey was used to gain an understanding of the existing conditions in the building prior to the fire, past training and occupant awareness of the evacuation procedure and to document the occupants' behavior and evacuation on the day of the fire."--P. 1.
Download or read book Simulating Human Behavior in High rise Building Fires written by Fred I. Stahl and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SFPE Guide to Human Behavior in Fire written by Society of Fire Protection Engineers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event. The Second Edition of SFPE's Engineering Guide: Human Behavior in Fire provides a common introduction to this field for the broad fire safety community: fire protection engineers/fire safety engineers, human behavior scientists/researchers, design professionals, and code authorities. The public benefits from consistent understanding of the factors that influence the responses and behaviors of people when threatened by fire and the application of reliable methodologies to evaluate and estimate human response in buildings and structures. This Guide also aims to lessen the uncertainties in the "people components" of fire safety and allow for more refined analysis with less reliance on arbitrary safety factors. As with fire science in general, our knowledge of human behavior in fire is growing, but is still characterized by uncertainties that are traceable to both limitation in the science and unfamiliarity by the user communities. The concepts for development of evacuation scenarios for performance-based designs and the technical methods to estimate evacuation response are reviewed with consideration to the limitation and uncertainty of the methods. This Guide identifies both quantitative and qualitative information that constitutes important consideration prior to developing safety factors, exercising engineering judgment, and using evacuation models in the practical design of buildings and evacuation procedures. Besides updating material in the First Edition, this revision includes new information on: Incapacitating Effects of Fire Effluent & Toxicity Analysis Methods Occupant Behavior Scnearios Movement Models and Behavioral Models Egress Model Selection, Verification, and Validation Estimation of Uncertainty and Use of Safety Factors Enhancing Human Response to Emergencies & Notification of Messaging The prediction of human behavior during a fire emergency is one of the most challenging areas of fire protection engineering. Yet, understanding and considering human factors is essential to designing effective evacuation systems, ensuring safety during a fire and related emergency events, and accurately reconstructing a fire.
Download or read book Evacuation from Fires written by Paul R DeCicco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evacuation from Fires, Volume II" in this important new series was developed because of the fundamental importance of removing occupants from harm's way during building fires and the need to demonstrate new analytical techniques and tools for the design and evaluation of exit requirements during fire emergencies. The corollary issue of elevator transport for evacuation and fire fighter use during fire emergencies is also discussed in this volume.
Download or read book Analysis of Occupant Behaviour in an Office Building Under Fire written by Masami Kobayashi and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings written by Andreas Wagner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to comprehensively cover research methods for building occupant behavior. As this is of growing importance for building design and for building performance optimization, the book aims to provide a sound scientific basis for experimental studies in this field. It introduces the reader to fundamental questions about the topic and unfolds the different fields related to occupant actions and comfort. This is followed by more general questions about developing an appropriate research method and experimental design. A comprehensive overview of sensors for monitoring environmental and also behavioral and action-related quantities helps to set up an experiment. In this context, different experimental environments and data collection methods (in-situ, laboratories, surveys) are introduced and discussed in terms of their suitability for the respective research question. Furthermore, data management and reporting is addressed. The book concludes with fundamental challenges in conducting occupant studies, with chapters on ground truth, ethics and privacy.
Download or read book Human Behavior in Fire Emergencies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of material of the latest specialized information on human behavior in fire emergencies.
Download or read book Building Fire Performance Analysis written by Robert W. Fitzgerald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-11-19 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, prescriptive building codes and fire safety standards are increasingly being replaced or supplemented by performance-based standards. This book discusses the implications in the industry to provide increased design flexibility, lower costs, improved safety, and even enhanced global trade. The building fire performance evaluation procedures described in this book can be used with any code, standard, or regulatory requirements. The key feature of this publication is its aid to professionals who work in the building and other such industries to make better decisions concerning fire performance and to communicate more effectively with professionals in other disciplines working in this area.
Download or read book Occupant Behavior Egress and Emergency Communication Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Behaviour in Fire written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Digest considers those aspects of human behaviour which are important to the design of safer and more economical means of escape from buildings. Since this is a relatively young area of study with a small case history base, this Digest draws only general conclusions based mainly on research commissioned by BRE on behalf of the DoE. It also draws on other source of work where they are considered significant or of international consensus.
Download or read book Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings written by Robert W. Fitzgerald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A building fire is dynamic. A continually changing hostile fire environment influences time relationships that affect fire defenses and risks to people and building functions. The fire and fire defenses in each building interact with different sequences and distinct ways. Risks are characterized by the building’s performance. Significantly updated and restructured new edition Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, 2nd Edition organizes the complex interactions into an analytical framework to evaluate any building - at any location - built under any regulatory jurisdiction or era. Systematic, logical procedures evaluate individual component behavior and integrate results to understand holistic performance. The Interactive Performance Information (IPI) chart structures complex time-related interactions among the fire, fire defenses, and associated risks. Quantification uses state-of-the-art deterministic methods of fire safety engineering and fire science. Managing uncertainty is specifically addressed. Key features: Emphasizes fire performance analysis for new or existing buildings. Augments fire dynamics calculation methods with qualitative methods to form a more complete understanding of the effects of hostile fire characteristics on building performance. Describes fire ground operations for engineers with no fire service experience. An analysis evaluates ways the site and building design help or hinder manual fire suppression. Establishes a transition from traditional structural requirements to modern calculation based structural analysis and design for fire conditions. Structural concepts are described for non-structural engineers to enable the roles of each profession to be integrated into comprehensive performance evaluations. Addresses techniques of managing uncertainty to improve understanding and communication with professionals of other disciplines. Describes methods of risk management using information from the building’s performance analysis. Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, 2nd Edition has been completely restructured around a performance based framework. Applications integrate traditional fire defenses with fire science and engineering to combine component performance with holistic performance.
