A virtual reality based fire training simulator with smoke hazard assessment capacity

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Xu, Z ^a   Lu, X Z ^a   Guan, H ^b   Chen, C ^a   Ren, A Z ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire training; Integrated assessment model; Safe path; Smoke hazard; Virtual reality; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HAZARDS; SIMULATORS; SMOKE; SUBWAY STATIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

FIRE TRAINING; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; SAFE PATH; SMOKE HAZARDS; VIRTUAL TRAINING; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84888180912     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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