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Technical Note (NIST TN)

Rethinking Egress: A Vision for the Future

Author(s)
Jason D. Averill, Richard D. Peacock
New technologies and research are redefining the state-of-the-art in building evacuation. The time is right to rethink the entire infrastructure of egress from

Toward a standard on the wind tunnel method

Author(s)
Emil Simiu
This document is intended to provide practicing engineers and building code officials with a technical resource that (i) describes current practices for the

Measurements to Support Public Safety Communications: Attenuation and Variability of 750 MHz Radio Wave Signals in Four Large Building Structures: NIST Technical Note 1552

Author(s)
William F. Young, Kate Remley, John M. Ladbury, Christopher L. Holloway, Chriss A. Grosvenor, Galen H. Koepke, Sander Floris, Wouter Numan, Andrea Garuti
In this report, we investigate radio communication problems faced by emergency responders (firefighters, police, and emergency medical personnel) in disaster

Connecting Buildings to Public Safety Networks

Author(s)
Alan B. Vinh, David G. Holmberg
The operation of modern buildings can support a vast amount of static and real-time data. Static information such as building schematics is vital for security

FDS Wall Flows Part I: Straight Channels

Author(s)
Randall J. McDermott
We perform calculations of 2D laminar and 3D turbulent channel flow with periodic streamwise boundary conditions. From the laminar results we verify that the

The Process of Human Behavior in Fires

Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski
Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are used to evaluate the level of safety provided by buildings during

Fire-Front Propagation Using the Level Set Method

Author(s)
Ronald G. Rehm, Randall J. McDermott
Propagation of an outdoor fire front in wildland or in a combination of wildland and structural fuels (the so-called wildland-urban interface or WUI fire), can

A History of Fire Testing.

Author(s)
James R. Lawson
This paper discusses the breakthroughs in science and engineering that have brought fire testing technology to its current state of maturity and provides

Modeling Human Behavior during Building Fires

Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski
Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are used to evaluate the level of safety provided by buildings during
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