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3D Computer modelling and human response
Author(s) -
Gradinscak M.,
Beck V.,
Brennan P.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
fire and materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-1018
pISSN - 0308-0501
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1018(199911/12)23:6<389::aid-fam716>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - apartment , fire safety , data collection , reliability (semiconductor) , fire protection engineering , computer science , firefighting , engineering , architectural engineering , simulation , database , civil engineering , power (physics) , statistics , physics , mathematics , chemistry , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
Abstract Current research within the Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE) at Victoria University of Technology is focused on the issues of fire safety in multi‐unit residential buildings. The level of fire safety performance in buildings is predicted using the CESARE‐Risk System Model that comprises a number of submodels. One of these is the Human Response Model which is used to predict the response of occupants to different cues prior to evacuation from individual apartment. Reliable information on the probability of responses by occupants in the early period of an emergency, and the time taken to respond, are both essential as input to the Human Response Model. Existing data collection via detailed interviews with occupants who have experienved an actual fire is time consuming and is limited to the relatively few fires that occur in apartment buildings. To increase the reliability of data and to provide an alterantive means for collecting data on human behaviour in fire emergencies, a computer graphics model has been developed to simulate the response of occupants. A human responses database system has been developed, combining the simulation model with an interactive database management system. This paper presents the computer simulation model and describes the human response database system used for recording participants responses. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.