FSEG Products

• EXODUS
• SMARTFIRE
• AASK DATABASE
• PRODUCT LEAFLETS

EXODUS	SMARTFIRE	AASK DATABASE
EXODUS – the evacuation tool for the safety industry – has been developed to meet the challenging demands of performance-based safety codes. EXODUS allows the safety engineer to test designs in less time, thus reaching the optimal solution, free of the high cost and potential danger associated with human evacuation trials.	SMARTFIRE is a complete Fire Field Modelling Environment that aims to make Fire Field Modelling techniques accessible to non-Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experts, and to produce a useful tool for research and consultative applications in fire safety engineering.	The AASK database project is 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.

EXODUS EVACUATION MODELLING SOFTWARE

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 FIRE FIELD MODELLING ENVIRONMENT

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.

THE 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) – is 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.