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Building safety and human behaviour in fire : a literature review
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In this article, a review of the available literature on human behaviour in a fire so far as building safety is concerned is presented as an overview of the critical factors which determine occupants' fire response performances, namely the characteristics of fire, human beings and buildings.About:
This article is published in Fire Safety Journal.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 462 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Active fire protection & Fire protection.read more
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Buildings as a global carbon sink
Galina Churkina,Galina Churkina,Alan Organschi,Christopher P. O. Reyer,Andrew Ruff,Kira Vinke,Zhu Liu,Barbara K. Reck,Thomas E. Graedel,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the potential of mid-rise urban buildings designed with engineered timber to provide long-term storage of carbon and to avoid the carbon-intensive production of mineral-based construction materials.
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Immersive virtual reality serious games for evacuation training and research: A systematic literature review
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for effective design and implementation of IVR SGs in the context of building evacuation training and research, applied to various indoor emergencies such as fire and earthquake was developed.
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Crowd behaviour and motion: Empirical methods
Milad Haghani,Majid Sarvi +1 more
TL;DR: The empirical evidence in this area is largely disperse and even in some cases mixed and contradictory, requiring a more unified system of terminologies and problem definitions as well as unified measurement methods in order for the findings of different studies to become replicable and comparable.
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Virtual reality for fire evacuation research
Max Kinateder,Enrico Ronchi,Daniel Nilsson,Margrethe Kobes,Mathias Müller,Paul Pauli,Andreas Mühlberger +6 more
TL;DR: It is argued that VR is a promising complementary laboratory tool in the quest to understand human behavior in fire and to improve fire safety.
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Agent-based simulation of building evacuation
Lu Tan,Mingyuan Hu,Hui Lin +2 more
TL;DR: An agent-based building evacuation model in which the evacuee's knowledge, including both the spatialknowledge of the stationary environment during a normal situation and the event knowledge of the predictable spatial change for fire-fighting purposes, is considered is considered and a semantic representation of building environment is developed to represent the alterable connectivity structure when considering the fire safety facilities.
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SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering
Morgan J. Hurley,Daniel Gottuk,John R. Hall,Kazunori Harada,Erica D. Kuligowski,Milosh Puchovsky,Jose L. Torero,JJohn M. Watts,Christopher Wieczorek +8 more
TL;DR: This book provides thorough treatment of the current best practices in fire protection engineering and performance-based fire safety, and remains the indispensible source for reliable coverage of fire safety engineering fundamentals, fire dynamics, hazard calculations, fire risk analysis, modeling and more.
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A review of the methodologies used in the computer simulation of evacuation from the built environment
TL;DR: A review of evacuation models can be found in this article, where the authors describe each of the modelling approaches adopted and critically review the inherent capabilities of each approach based on available published literature.
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Experiment, theory, and simulation of the evacuation of a room without visibility.
TL;DR: It is found that the disoriented students exhibit a distinctly different behavior compared to a situation in which people can see their environment, and the average escape time becomes minimal for a certain finite number of people in the dark or smoky room.
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Quantification of behaviour for engineering design standards and escape time calculations
D.A Purser,M Bensilum +1 more
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Crowd psychology and engineering
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a comprehensive approach to crowd safety design, management and risk assessment needs to integrate psychology and engineering frames of reference, and stress the need to address the relationship between design and engineering.
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