Overall and local movement speeds during fire drill evacuations in buildings up to 31 stories

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1655-1664

  Peacock, R D ^a   Hoskins, B L ^a   Kuligowski, E D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egress; Evacuation; Fire safety; Modeling; Theory

Indexed keywords

BUILDING DESIGN; BUILDING EVACUATION; BUILDING OCCUPANCY; CODES AND STANDARDS; DATA COLLECTION; EGRESS; EGRESS SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY PLANNING; ENGINEERING LABORATORIES; ENGINEERING MODELS; EVACUATION; EVACUATION DATUM; EVENT RECONSTRUCTION; FIRE DRILL; FIRE SAFETY; IN-BUILDINGS; MOVEMENT SPEED; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY; PRE EVACUATIONS; THEORY;

BUILDING COMPONENTS; DRILLS; FIRES; LABORATORIES; MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SPEED;

BUILDING CODES;

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION WORK; DISASTER PLANNING; EVACUATION; FIRE AND FIRE RELATED PHENOMENA; FIRE DRILL; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STAIR DESCENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 84861203291     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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