• Title/Summary/Keyword: Fire Evacuation Design

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Design of Fire Evacuation Guidance System using USN Mesh Routing in High-Rise Buildings (초고층 건물 화재에서 USN 메쉬 라우팅을 이용한 피난유도 시스템 설계)

  • Choi, Yeon-Yi;Joe, In-Whee
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.278-286
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    • 2008
  • When big fire in high rise building and multiplex happens, the needs for high prevention system of disaster are being increased for getting the real-time scene state, quick lifesaver, and safe life security. In this paper the proposed evacuation guidance algorithm which analyzed the feature and danger of fire in high rise buildings, gave simplicity and scalability. Our research shows as fire and disaster occur in high rise buildings we construct sensor networks and sense realtime location information on fire alive people, and the situation information for fire instructed quick and safe escaping route by using mesh routing algorithm scheme relative to exit sign.

A study on the Means of Egress Codes for Interior Architecture in the United States - Focused on Evacuation Elements in the Interior Architectural Design - (미국의 실내건축 피난 규정에 관한 연구 - 실내건축계획에 있어 피난 요소를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Young-Sung;Cho, Sung-O
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 2018
  • The law reflects the situation of the times, understands the society, and shows the will of the state and the community. The Means of Egress should be maintained from design to construction, supervision, as well as use, in order to protect the lives and property of the residents as well as the safe use of the facilities. However, Interior Architects are think that evacuation and safety regulations are complex elements that change frequently and may inhibit the idea of design. The purpose of this study is to propose a design method for the use of safe facilities in the interior architectural design on the evacuation regulations affecting the actual design by the IBC(the International Building Code) and NFPA(National Fire Protection Association) LSC (Life Safety Code). The research method is to investigate and analyze the provisions related to the evacuation of interior architecture in the US and to understand the current regulations and the evacuation regulations. We suggest to design method to the details of the hallway, corridors, aisle accessway, door way, exit path, In particular, the design of furniture, tables and chairs layout that could be obstacles to evacuation situations is presented.

Effects of evacuation delay time and fire growth curve on quantitative risk for railway tunnel fire (철도터널 화재 시 피난개시시간지연 및 화재성장곡선이 정량적 위험도에 미치는 영향)

  • Ryu, Ji-Oh;Kim, Hyo-Gyu;Lee, Hoo-Young
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.809-822
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    • 2018
  • A quantitative risk assessment has been introduced to quantitatively evaluate fire risk as a means of performance based fire protection design in the design of railway tunnel disaster prevention facilities. However, there are insufficient studies to examine the effect of various risk factors on the risk. Therefore, in this study, the risk assessment was conducted on the model tunnel in order to examine the effects of the evacuation start time delay and the fire growth curve on the quantitative risk assessment. As a result of the analysis of the scenario, the fatalities occurred mainly when escapes in the same direction as the direction of the fire smoke movement. In addition, after the FED exceeded 0.3, the maximum fatalities occurred within 10 minutes. In the range of relatively low risk, distance between cross passages, evacuation delay time and fire growth curve were found to affect the risk, but they were found to have little effect on the condition that the risk reached the limit. Especially, in this study, it was evaluated that the evacuation delay time reduction, fire intensity and duration reduction effect were not observed when the distance between cross passages was more than 1500 m.

Design of Emergency Light - Focusing on Public Facilities (피난유도등 디자인 연구 -다중이용시설을 중심으로)

  • Yoo, Ga-Hee;Yang, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.301-308
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    • 2020
  • Based on the analysis of fire escape situations in public facility, this study was intended to propose a design of emergency light suitable for fire in public facility. A video analysis was conducted to understand the evacuation situation of public facility because the fire could not be randomized due to the disaster. Through video analysis, we were able to identify inconvenience and necessary needs in avoiding fire in public facility and reflected them in the design of emergency light, etc. As a result of the design of emergency light, the wall type induction lamp had different LED layout structures to minimize the thickness of the product. Ceiling induction lamps have been supplemented for additional installation in corridors of complex structures. The results of this study are designed based on the criteria used in the manufacture of actual emergency light and we intend to explore ways to be practical through further experiment measurements and complementary steps through expert advice.

Evacuation Efficiency on School Auditorium Floor Layout (학교강당의 평면적 특징에 따른 대피효율에 관한 연구)

  • Kwun, Joon-Bum;Kim, Duk-Soo;Kim, Khil-Chae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2017
  • This study compared evacuation effectiveness between the conventional school auditorium plan and a suggested hypothetical plan that was generated by a mathematical model, which is commonly applied in the field of industrial engineering. Recent school buildings became much more complicated in floor planning due to new social needs and modern curriculum than the old days. Nevertheless, architect's approach to floor composition in terms of fire emergency evacuation planning, still has no relation to optimized effective but relies more on an conventional school planning. Therefore, since school buildings are much more likely to be exposed to any fire related events than any other building types, emergency exit effectiveness based on spatial composition has to be seriously evaluated with a scientific method. The algorithm, which acquires the number of persons in each spatial type(node) per floor and the minimum physical distance between spatial types(arc), can propose the most optimized spatial layout per floor regarding emergency evacuation event. Consequently, this study evaluated school's fire exit effectiveness focusing on auditorium area with the scientific tool and suggested the most reliable spatial layout regarding possibile emergency evacuation event.

Effective Evacuation based on Elementary School's Floor Layout (초등학교 층별 구성과 비상시 대피효율성의 관계)

  • Kwun, Joon-Bum;Kim, Duk-Su;Kim, Khil-Chae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2016
  • This study compared evacuation effectiveness between the conventional school floor plan and a suggested hypothetical floor plan that was generated by a mathematical model that is commonly applied in the field of industrial engineering. Recent school buildings became much more complicated in floor planning due to the new educational system and modern curriculum than the old days. Nevertheless, architect's approach to floor composition in terms of fire emergency evacuation planning, still has no relation to optimized effective but relies more on a conventional school planning. Therefore, since elementary school buildings are much more likely to be exposed to any fire related events than middle school or high-school, emergency exit effectiveness based on spatial composition has to be seriously evaluated with a scientific method. The algorithm, which acquires the number of persons in each spatial type (node) per floor and the minimum physical distance between spatial types (arc), can propose the most optimized spatial compositing per floor regarding emergency evacuation event. Consequently, this study evaluated elementary school's fire exit effectiveness with the scientific tool and suggested the most reliable spatial composition per floor regarding possibile emergency evacuation event.

A Study on the Effects of Silver Housing on Evacuation Safety using Human Behavior Simulation - Focused on Floor Planning of Corridor Types in Urban Silver Housing - (인간행동 시뮬레이션을 통한 노인주거 피난안전성 검증에 관한 연구 - 도심형 노인주거의 복도 유형별 평면계획 분석 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Seung-Woo;Kim, Kyeong-Bae
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.35 no.9
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2019
  • Recently as the rapid increasing of the elderly, silver housing has grown up. Though much fire evacuation and safety law, fire accident is most dangerous problem in our society. So this study is the purpose to analyze evacuation safety in urban silver housing of floor planning by corridor types using human behavior simulation. The methodology of this study is 'Literature Review' and 'Simulation'. This study has been carried out on silver housing's definition, types, fire safety theory and relation law. To proof evacuation safety, this study measured escaping time, longest distance, and bottleneck counting using human behavior simulation. This study use game engine simulation program to analyze 6 corridor types experimental model. As the result of simulation, this study compare between ASET and simulation result. The result come down to 3 part. First, double loaded corridor type is the most dangerous on urban silver housing. Second, Safe shelter's location and number cause increasing of escaping time. Lastly escaping time is influenced by behavior of agent, bottle neck strike frequency.

Design of Fire Emergency Evacuation System using Potential Field (퍼텐셜 필드를 이용한 화재 응급 대피 시스템 설계)

  • Lee, Min-Goo;Jung, Kyung-Kwon;Lee, Won-Seok
    • 전자공학회논문지 IE
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    • v.48 no.3
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposed that the method be searched for optimal route of evacuation by algorithm using potential field in specific situation, fire. When robot met an obstacle to be indicated it to ignition point, the installed sensor could be detected the point in restricted area. In according as the data of a fire detection sensor and a sensor complex in a building, the information was transmitted to server which computed optimal route of evacuation by algorithm using potential field. After that, it was able to blow a siren and mark the safe-path with using wireless device such as smart-phone. It was confirmed that the proposed method in functional test, fire emergency evacuation algorithm using potential field, was advanced in circumstance of simulation.

Modeling and simulation of large crowd evacuation in hazard-impacted environments

  • Datta, Songjukta;Behzadan, Amir H.
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.91-118
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    • 2019
  • Every year, many people are severely injured or lose their lives in accidents such as fire, chemical spill, public pandemonium, school shooting, and workplace violence. Research indicates that the fate of people in an emergency situation involving one or more hazards depends not only on the design of the space (e.g., residential building, industrial facility, shopping mall, sports stadium, school, concert hall) in which the incident occurs, but also on a host of other factors including but not limited to (a) occupants' characteristics, (b) level of familiarity with and cognition of the surroundings, and (c) effectiveness of hazard intervention systems. In this paper, we present EVAQ, a simulation framework for modeling large crowd evacuation by taking into account occupants' behaviors and interactions during an emergency. In particular, human's personal (i.e., age, gender, disability) and interpersonal (i.e., group behavior and interactions) attributes are parameterized in a hazard-impacted environment. In addition, different hazard types (e.g., fire, lone wolf attacker) and propagation patterns, as well as intervention schemes (simulating building repellent systems, firefighters, law enforcement) are modeled. Next, the application of EVAQ to crowd egress planning in an airport terminal under human attack, and a shopping mall in fire emergency are presented and results are discussed. Finally, a validation test is performed using real world data from a past building fire incident to assess the reliability and integrity of EVAQ in comparison with existing evacuation modeling tools.

The comparative analysis on escaping time for fire escape design (피난설계 예시도면 작성을 통한 피난소요 시간 비교.분석 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Hee;Hwang, Eun-Kyoung;Jo, Jung-Hun;Hwang, Keum-Suk
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.261-264
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    • 2008
  • A guideline to complement safety problem of escape code at the fire controlling design stage was shown by comparing & analysing developed fire controlling countries such as US, UK, Japan, and etc. and appropriateness of improving legislations for building standard of escape code was examined by comparing & analysing escaping time with escape code simulation(SIMULEX, EXDOUS) as the guideline.

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