EXODUS
The evacuation tool for the safety industry - has been developed to meet the challenging demands of performance based safety codes. Based on a highly sophisticated set of sub models, it shatters the mould of traditional engineering analysis to produce realistic people-people, people-fire and people-structure interactions. As a result, the safety engineer can test more designs in less time to reach the optimal solution, free of the high cost and potential danger associated with human evacuation trials. Developed by the Fire Safety Engineering Group at the University of Greenwich, EXODUS comprises a suite of software packages, tailored to the building, maritime and aircraft environments. A rail version of the EXODUS software is currently under development.
SMARTFIRE
Developed within the Fire Safety Engineering Group at the University of Greenwich, is a complete Fire Field Modelling Environment that employs state-of-the-art finite volume methods. The aim of SMARTFIRE is twofold. (1) To make Fire Field Modelling techniques accessible to non-Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experts; such as fire fighters, architects or fire safety engineers, and (2) To produce a useful tool for research and consultative applications in fire safety engineering. To achieve these aims the SMARTFIRE Fire Field Modelling Environment has been created, based on an open architecture interactive CFD code with integrated knowledge based components. SMARTFIRE employs sophisticated knowledge based routines, intuitive interactive graphical User Interfaces and comprehensive numerical models to provide enhanced usability, complete control, powerful features and fast project turn-around.
AASK Database
The AASK Database project undertaken by the Fire Safety Engineering Group of the University of Greenwich funded by the UK CAA (CAA project 277/SRG/R&AD) concerned with the development of the Aircraft Accident Statistics and Knowledge (AASK) database. It is a repository of survivor accounts from aviation accidents. Its main purpose is to store observational and anecdotal data from the actual interviews of the occupants involved in aircraft accidents. It was initially envisaged as an aid to the development of aircraft evacuation models - such as airEXODUS - where insight was required into how people actually behaved during evacuation from survivable aircraft crashes. In addition, the database has wider application to other areas of aviation safety.
Validation Data-sets
FSEG evacuation research often involves undertaking evacuation experiments. Some of these experiments may prove useful in defining data-sets suitable for the validation of evacuation models. When appropriate, FSEG make these data-sets available to the modelling and regulatory community.
The data-sets are free to use however, when the material is used we request specific citation is made as to the source of the data-sets. The requested citation is identified with each data-set.
Thus far, validation data-sets for maritime and building applications have been provided. As additional data-sets are collected, they will be made available on these pages.
In addition to the data-sets, a tool has been provided that calculates an objective measure of how well model predicted exit times fit the measured validation data. The metric used by the tool consists of the Euclidean Relative Difference, Euclidean Projection Coefficient and the Secant Cosine. These measures compare the shape of the model prediction to the experimental data as well as the distance apart.