Essays about: "Fire drill"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Fire drill.
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1. Teachers’ Perception of Factors Delaying Evacuation of School Children
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to study teachers’ perception of children’s ability to evacuate, thus learning about children’s evacuation behavior. Questions of interest are teachers’ perception of children’s ability to evacuate, their behavior, if there are any misconceptions in the teachers’ perception and how fire evacuation drills influence the teachers’ perceptions. READ MORE
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2. Youth Preparedness in the United States: Assessing the Impact of the American Red Cross’s “Prepare with Pedro!” Program
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Home fires are the most prevalent and preventable disaster in the United States. It is notoriously difficult to teach disaster preparedness skills to adults. But, when their children are taught this material, households are more likely to make changes. READ MORE
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3. Skogsägarens riskhantering – storm, brand & granbarkborre i Sverige
University essay from SLU/School for Forest ManagementAbstract : Klimatförändringarna är ständigt pågående och märkbara i det svenska skogsbruket. Skogen växer med anpassning till klimatet vilket gör denna process extra tydlig i samband med att klimatet förändras. Skador på skog har alltid funnits i en mer eller mindre omfattning. Under de senaste tjugo åren utmärker sig vissa år mer än andra. READ MORE
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4. Testing the wildland urban interface fire evacuation tool WUI-NITY: A case study of a rural community
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This thesis makes use of a freely available platform based on multi-physics simulations, named WUI-NITY, to model WUI fire evacuation. This simulation platform includes three sub-models addressing fire spread, pedestrian movement and traffic movement allowing the representation of their interaction to produce outputs useful for dynamic vulnerability assessment. READ MORE
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5. Temperature distribution and charring penetrations in timber assemblies exposed to parametric fire curves : Comparisons between tests and TASEF predictions
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Byggkonstruktion och brandAbstract : Four furnace tests have been performed using two different parametric fire curves and the results are compared with computer simulations and Eurocode calculations. What differentiates the parametric fire curve from other fire curves is in particular the cooling phase, something that has proven to be hard to model for timber structures. READ MORE
