Essays about: "walking speed in stairs"
Found 4 essays containing the words walking speed in stairs.
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1. Verification Testing of Evacuationz, a Coarse Network Evacuation Model
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Several evacuation models exist in the market. It is an issue for both the user and developer to evaluate the ease of use and the quality of the model results. Verification is the process of determining that the results of a calculation method match with the developer's conceptual modelling representation expectations, i.e. READ MORE
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2. The effects of fatigue during deep metro evacuations and its implications on evacuation modelling tools
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : The thesis purpose is to determine how people’s evacuation performance is affected by carrying weight while performing a stair-climbing motion. The fire safety engineering and physiology fields are merged to increase the knowledge regarding ascending evacuation. READ MORE
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3. Building occupant movement in wide descending stairs
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : Several incidents in the past confirm that crowd movement in stairs represents a risk that has potential of causing serious injuries. Extensively research has been conducted for descending stairs. However, less is known about particularly wide staircases, which is taken to be stairs with tread width of 1.2m or above. READ MORE
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4. Modelling Ascending Stair Evacuation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : The thesis presents a basic validation study on the use of evacuation models for the simulation of ascending stair evacuation. The validation of the evacuation models is performed against a benchmark experiment consisting of a 50-floor ascending evacuation. READ MORE
