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Comparison Between The Human Reactions In A Simulacrum And In A Real Fire Situation
Human reaction to a fire situation in buildings depends on the characteristics of each individual, of the building and the actual emergency situation. To minimize the consequences of an emergency fire situation in a building, it is important to have a safe, orderly and rapid evacuation. For this purpose, the occupants should be trained to respond in an appropriate way. Therefore, it is necessary to assess whether simulacrums or fire drills are effective or not. Read More...
Change Behavior in Pathfinder
As of Pathfinder 2018.2, Behaviors can now dynamically change from one to another throughout the simulation. The new Change Behavior step allows the user to define a progression to one of the other Behaviors defined in the model. Read More...
FEMTC 2018 Call for Papers and Key Speakers
Thunderhead Engineering is hosting the 4th Fire and Evacuation Modeling Technical Conference (FEMTC) on October 1-3, 2018 in Gaithersburg, MD. We have planned two and a half days of technical presentations on fire and evacuation modeling. Read More...
PyroSim 2018.1.0417
This release includes bug fixes and improves boundary vent visualization in Results. Read More...
Pathfinder 2018.2.0417
This release includes bug fixes and improves boundary vent visualization in Results. Read More...
PetraSim 2018.1.0416
This release adds compatibility with TOUGHREACT v3.3, improves support for wells on deliverability, and includes bug fixes. Read More...
Korean Translation of PyroSim and Pathfinder
Kimyoung Engineering Co.,Ltd has finished the process of translating PyroSim and Pathfinder into the Korean language. In addition to the software translations, they are working on the translation of tutorials and software documentation. Read More...
Top 10 Reasons You Should be Using the New Integrated PyroSim Results
PyroSim now includes an integrated Results Viewer. Here are the top 10 reasons you should be using it. Read More...
The Simulation Of Assisted Evacuation In Hospitals
This paper proposes a modelling strategy to simulate a hospital evacuation. The capabilities of two commercial evacuation models, STEPS and Pathfinder, are explored to evaluate their ability to simulate this type of scenarios. This includes the study of the issues concerning the simulation of horizontal hospital evacuation (i.e. calibration issues, capabilities and limitations). A case study is presented in this paper by using STEPS model. Read More...
PyroSim 2018.1.0329
This release includes improvements for the Results viewer, support for the WIND namelist, and improvements to usability and reliability. Read More...