The Impact of Smoke on Walking Speed
(2013) International Interflam Conference, Interflam 2013 2. p.955-965- Abstract
- In fire safety engineering, information about the expected walking speed of occupants through smoke is one factor that is of great interest to the designer. However, despite the fact that research already in the 1970s demonstrated that people tend to evacuate through smoke, little research has been performed on the topic, and evidently there is a lack of data on walking speed in smoke. This has created a situation where fire safety engineering assessments of the RSET may be intimately associated with great uncertainties, especially for buildings in which in which people can be expected to evacuate long distances through smoke, e.g., underground transportation systems. In order to address the lack of data on movement through smoke, 133 data... (More)
- In fire safety engineering, information about the expected walking speed of occupants through smoke is one factor that is of great interest to the designer. However, despite the fact that research already in the 1970s demonstrated that people tend to evacuate through smoke, little research has been performed on the topic, and evidently there is a lack of data on walking speed in smoke. This has created a situation where fire safety engineering assessments of the RSET may be intimately associated with great uncertainties, especially for buildings in which in which people can be expected to evacuate long distances through smoke, e.g., underground transportation systems. In order to address the lack of data on movement through smoke, 133 data points on individual walking speed in smoke are presented in this paper. The presented data lies within an extinction coefficient range from 1.2 to 7.5 m-1 (approximately corresponding to a visibility interval of 2.4-0.4 m for reflecting objects). In addition, recommendations are given on how designers should treat the data in their fire safety risk assessments, depending on the type of risk analysis method, i.e., if the designer is performing a deterministic analysis, or a quantitative risk analysis (QRA). It is argued that this information can be used to reduce the uncertainty in future risk analyses that involve egress calculations. (Less)
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- Fridolf, Karl LU ; Andrée, Kristin LU ; Nilsson, Daniel LU and Frantzich, Håkan LU
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- 2013
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- volume
- 2
- pages
- 955 - 965
- publisher
- Interscience Communications Ltd
- conference name
- International Interflam Conference, Interflam 2013
- conference location
- London, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2013-06-24 - 2013-06-26
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- 978-0-9556548-9-3
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- English
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abstract = {{In fire safety engineering, information about the expected walking speed of occupants through smoke is one factor that is of great interest to the designer. However, despite the fact that research already in the 1970s demonstrated that people tend to evacuate through smoke, little research has been performed on the topic, and evidently there is a lack of data on walking speed in smoke. This has created a situation where fire safety engineering assessments of the RSET may be intimately associated with great uncertainties, especially for buildings in which in which people can be expected to evacuate long distances through smoke, e.g., underground transportation systems. In order to address the lack of data on movement through smoke, 133 data points on individual walking speed in smoke are presented in this paper. The presented data lies within an extinction coefficient range from 1.2 to 7.5 m-1 (approximately corresponding to a visibility interval of 2.4-0.4 m for reflecting objects). In addition, recommendations are given on how designers should treat the data in their fire safety risk assessments, depending on the type of risk analysis method, i.e., if the designer is performing a deterministic analysis, or a quantitative risk analysis (QRA). It is argued that this information can be used to reduce the uncertainty in future risk analyses that involve egress calculations.}},
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title = {{The Impact of Smoke on Walking Speed}},
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