ISO/TR TECHNICAL REPORT 16738 First edition 2009-08-01 Fire-safety engineering Technical information on methods for evaluating behaviour and movement of people Ingénierie de la sécurite incendie - Informations techniques sur les methodes d'evaluation du comportement et du mouvement des personnes Reference number ISO/TR 16738:2009(E) @ISO2009 py IHS under lic Not for Resale ISO/TR16738:2009(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by IsO member bodies. In the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ ISO2009 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO 2009 - All rights reserved edwithoutlicense from IHS Not for Resale ISO/TR 16738:2009(E) Contents Page Foreword. iv Introduction 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions.. 4 Symbols..... 5 Integration of behaviour and movement into performance-based design . 5.1 General.. 5.2 Basis of performance-based design for life safety .... 5.3 ASET caiculations.... 5.4 RSETcalculations 5.5 Evacuation strategies 5.6 Margin of safety .... 5.7 Elements used in the quantification of RSET 6 Design behavioural scenarios for quantification of RsET ... 7 Estimation of pre-travel activity times... 9 8 Estimation of travel times . 9 9 Interactions between pre-travel activity time, walking time and exit flow time ..... 10 Calculation of escape and evacuation times for single enclosures and for multi-storey or multi-enclosure buildings ..... 11 11 Effects of fire effluent and heat on ASET and RSET.... .12 11.1 General..... 12 11.2 Simple criteria based upon zero exposure 13 11.3 Willingness to enter smoke ... 14 11.4 Ability to move through smoke .. 14 11.5 Effects of smoke on walking speed. 4 11.6 Effects of visibility or exposure to fire and heat ...... 14 11.7 Effects of exposure to toxic gases .... 15 Annex A (informative) Guidance on the evaluation of detection and warning times. 16 Annex B (informative) Pre-travel activity behaviours and determinants.. ..18 Annex C (informative) Detailed information needed for RsET calculations .. 20 Annex D (informative) Design behavioural scenarios for derivation of default RsET variables ........ 23 Annex E (informative) Pre-travel activity time distribution data and derivations .30 Annex F (informative) Evacuation start time of the verification methods for safe evacuation in Japan.... 38 Annex G (informative) Guidance on travel speeds and flow rates... . 40 Annex H (informative) Examples of interactions between pre-travel activity and travel times . . 52 Annex I (informative) Effects of smoke on walking speed. .55 Bibliography 57 CopyrghtInternationalOrganizaionsadardizaoghtsreserved ii put license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/TR 16738:2009(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies technicalcommittees.Eachmemberbodyinterestedinasubjectforwhichatechnicalcommitteehasbeer non-governmental, in liaison with isO, also take part in the work. iso collaborates closely with the International Standar