Characteristics of merging occupants in a staircase

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 591-598

  Takeichi, Naohiro ^a   Yoshida, Yoshiyuki ^a   Sano, Tomonori ^b   Kimura, Takeshi ^b   Watanabe, Hitoshi ^b   Ohmiya, Yoshifumi ^c  

^a TAKENAKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density; Evacuation; Flow; Merging; Travel

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FIRES; MERGING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CROWD DENSITY; EVACUATION; FLOW; POPULATION DENSITIES; TRAVEL;

STAIRS;

EID: 80054097514     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.8-591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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