Assessing the Verification and Validation of Building Fire Evacuation Models
Ronchi, Enrico LU
; Kuligowski, Erica D.
; Nilsson, Daniel
LU
; Peacock, Richard D.
and Reneke, Paul A.
(2016)
In Fire Technology
52(1).
p.197-219
- Abstract
- To date there is no International standard on the verification and validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models, i.e., model testers adopt inconsistent procedures or tests designed for other model uses. For instance, the tests presented within the MSC/Circ.1238 Guidelines for evacuation analysis for new and existing passenger ships provided by the International Maritime Organization are often employed for the V&V of models outside their original context of use (building fires instead of maritime applications). This paper presents a list of verification tests for component testing and the analysis of emergent behaviours together with examples of experimental data-sets suitable for the analysis of different core components.... (More)
- To date there is no International standard on the verification and validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models, i.e., model testers adopt inconsistent procedures or tests designed for other model uses. For instance, the tests presented within the MSC/Circ.1238 Guidelines for evacuation analysis for new and existing passenger ships provided by the International Maritime Organization are often employed for the V&V of models outside their original context of use (building fires instead of maritime applications). This paper presents a list of verification tests for component testing and the analysis of emergent behaviours together with examples of experimental data-sets suitable for the analysis of different core components. The capabilities of building fire evacuation models are evaluated by studying their five main core components, namely (1) pre-evacuation time, (2) movement and navigation, (3) exit usage, (4) route availability and (5) flow constraints. This paper discusses the tests which are included in a freely available Technical Note developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is intended to open a discussion on the main issues associated with the definition of a standard procedure for the V&V of building fire evacuation models, including the definition of the acceptance criteria of a standard V&V protocol. (Less)
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- Ronchi, Enrico
LU
; Kuligowski, Erica D.
; Nilsson, Daniel
LU
; Peacock, Richard D.
and Reneke, Paul A.
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- 2016
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- Verification, Validation, Evacuation, Modelling, Human behaviour in fire, Building fires
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- Fire Technology
- volume
- 52
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 197 - 219
- publisher
- Springer
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- wos:000368714700010
- scopus:84955722057
- ISSN
- 0015-2684
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10694-014-0432-3
- language
- English
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