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A Study on Setting the Grade of Vertical Evacuation Rank to Introduce an USN-based Evacuation System into Super High-rise Apartment Housing's (초고층 공동주택의 USN기반 피난시스템 도입을 위한 수직적 피난위계 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Won-Hwa;Jeon, Gyu-Yeob;Choi, Jun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.133-141
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to secure an evacuation time and to ensure safety by using an Ubiquitous Sensor Network computing when a fire breaks out at a super high-rise apartment housing. A super high-rise apartment housing that is a type of building to solve the problem of separation of the urban function and the phenomenon of hollowing out downtown has been on the increase, high-rise apartment housings occupying 52.7% of whole housings in 2005. However, if a fire breaks out, there would be serious damage since it accommodates many people and facilities as existence of vertical gigantism in the city. The architectural law in force has no clause on it which is universally applicable to general building, it is difficult to be applicable to a densely super high-rise apartment housing and there would be in danger of a resident's evacuation in the fire. Therefore, as a previous study to introduce an USN-based fire-warning facility and evacuation equipment, this study shows the improvement way after analyzing factors that are barriers to evacuaee's behavior of a super high-rise apartment housing and also shows establishment of the grade of vertical evacuation rank by SimuleX, one of the best computer simulation program.

Effects of High School Corridor Walking Obstacles on Evacuation Safety (고등학교 복도 보행 장애물이 피난 안전성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee Soon Beom
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.112-119
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    • 2023
  • This study analyzes the effects of personal lockers, drinking fountains, and all-in-one shutters (hereinafter referred to as "corridor walking obstacles") on evacuation safety to suggest the necessity of operating a more effective educational facility safety certification system. To achieve this purpose, the five-story high school building with the obstacles installed in the corridor has been chosen, and evacuation tests through the Pathfinder Simulation Program have been carried out. When the evacuation exit is designated in the current state, where the students are placed on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors and the corridor walking obstacles are applied as a variable, the required safe egress time (RSET) is 322 seconds. This can lead to dangerous results in the event of a disaster by exceeding the available safe egress time (ASET) standard of 240 seconds by 82 seconds. When students are placed on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors under the same conditions, the RSET is 214.5 seconds, 25.5 seconds lower than the ASET standard, indicating that it is effective in reducing the impact of walking obstacles on evacuation time. The safety management plan for walking obstacles in the corridors is discussed, considering the special characteristics of the school corridors. The results of this study can be used as the necessary data for optimizing evacuation routes in corridors and creating a safe, educational environment.

A Study on Ship Evacuation Safety Consequent on the Size and Sort of Fire (화재의 크기와 종류에 따른 선박 피난 안전 연구)

  • KIM, Won-Ouk;KIM, Dae-Hee
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.1358-1364
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    • 2016
  • Maritime accidents caused by a ship include collisions, sinking, stranding and fire etc. This study is intending to consider fire accidents among such diverse marine accidents. It is much likely that various sorts of fires break out because crewmen are living in a narrow space for long periods of time consequent on the ship's characteristic of sailing on the sea. According to the ship fire survey, about 50% of the total fire accidents occurred at an engine room, and the main fire origin was analyzed to be oil. In addition, ship fire breaks out in the order of baggage racks and living quarter. In short, the survey indicates that all sorts of fires belonging to A, B, C and D-class have occurred. This study, targeting an actual passenger ship 'A', found the response time to evacuation, during which the people on board a ship recognize the outbreak of fire, and act, and the travel time for evacuation which is the actual travel time. In addition, this study carried out a simulation through the special program for fire analysis - FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) in order to find the effective evacuation time, i.e. life survival time. Particularly, this study did comparative analysis of the influence on the survival of passengers and crew based on the collected simulation data by fire size and sort. As a result of the analysis, it was found that when examining the only actual evacuation movement time excepting the response time to evacuation, people are safe by completing evacuation before the effective evacuation time only in case fire size is 100Kw among all sorts of fires. In other words, in case of the outbreak of fire more than 1 MW, it was found to fail to meet evacuation safety regardless of fire size.

Performance-Based Evaluation on Evacuation Safety of Road Tunnels Considering Fire Size and Evacuation Exit (화재 크기와 피난연결통로를 고려한 도로터널의 성능기반 피난안전성 평가)

  • Si-Hyun Oh;In-Wook Heo;Sang-Ki Lee;Seung-Ho Choi;Sunnie Haam
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2024
  • In this study, an analytical evaluation of evacuation safety in typical road tunnels was conducted. The Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) was employed to perform fire simulations with varying fire sizes to determine the allowable evacuation time in road tunnels. Additionally, evacuation simulations were performed using Pathfinder, considering the width of barrier doors and the spacing of evacuation passageways, to calculate the required evacuation time. A comparison between the allowable and required evacuation times was conducted to assess the impact of fire size, passageway spacing, and barrier door width on tunnel evacuation safety. The results from the fire and evacuation simulations indicated that an increase in fire size and passageway spacing, along with a decrease in door width, resulted in an increase in the number of casualties. Conversely, increasing the barrier door width to more than 1.2meters led to a reduction in casualties as passageway spacing increased.

Design and Implementation of Evacuation Simulation of Indoor Environment Fire (건물 내에서 화재시의 대피 시뮬레이션 설계 및 구현)

  • Jang, Byeong-Ok
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2010
  • With recent development of computer hardware and 3D graphic technique, a lot of people have concern for something to express as the 3D graphic that look the real environment. Because the request of users have increased, the 3D simulation is developed and popularized in the many field. In this paper, we design and implement the simulation system that humans evacuate a building fires using the 3D graphic techniques. In this paper, we use the A* algorithm to humans have the artificial intelligence at evacuating a building fires, calculate the evacuation speed of each human considering temperature damage and smoke damage. In this paper, we applied the real building to demonstrate the effect of proposed evacuation simulation. Experimental results showed that the evacuation speed is affected by the temperature condition and the smoke density.

A Study on the Evacuation Performance of Evacuation System using Real-time IoT Information (실시간 IoT 정보 활용 피난시스템의 피난성능 연구)

  • Lee, Chul Gyoo;Moon, Sang Ho;Lee, Sang Kyu;Lee, Gye Eun
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.281-291
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    • 2019
  • In order to reflect complex and diverse building types, resident characteristics and disaster factors, it is necessary to introduce a flexible situation-based response system based on real-time information. Intelligent CCTV, hybrid sensor, location scanner, and customized broadcasting device were examined to introduce for the real-time response intelligent response system and its feasibility was verified through field test. In addition, based on the real-time information, the evacuation simulation was executed by assuming the dormitory building and the resident of the school, and the safety of the evacuation and the shortening of the pinnacle time were confirmed. The feasibility of real time information based evacuation comparing with the existing evacuation system were verified in the case of evacuation.

Analysis of Evacuation Time According to Variation of Evacuation Stairs' Width in Large-Scale Goshiwons (대규모 고시원의 피난계단 폭의 변화에 따른 피난소요시간 분석)

  • Oh, Su-cheol;Kong, Ha-Sung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.641-651
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    • 2022
  • This research compares and analyzes evacuation time depending on the change in stair width in case of fire at Goshiwons. For this, a simulation has been conducted based on possible evacuation time according to the calculation method for the number of people admittable to a specific target for fire fighting equipped with accommodation. Currently, Gosiwon, which is classified as an accommodation facility (a total floor area of 500 m2 or more), uses blind spots prescribed by the Fire Services Act, Building Act, and Parking Act to build a high-rise building on a small area of land, and most Gosiwon is transformed into a modified accommodation. This is in line with the owner's operating profit, so it is expected to show a continuous increase. Securing the golden time of Gosiwon evacuation time is the last bastion of Gosiwon residents who belong to the economically disadvantaged in our society, and we hope this study will serve as a starting point for discussions on revising related laws and regulations to establish a social safety net As a result of the evacuation simulation analysis, the evacuation time was the least when the width of the group and the evacuation stairs were expanded to 200cm, and the evacuation time of the existing building was reduced by up to 166.3 seconds by comparing 648.4 seconds and scenario 6. This analysis can be meaningful, in that the width of the evacuation stairs revision of related laws and regulations for the safety of multiplex available premises.

Proposals on the Input Data Standardization Needs of Fire and Evacuation Simulation in Performance Based Design (성능위주 화재와 피난시뮬레이션 입력데이터의 표준화 필요성에 대한 제안)

  • Jang, Keun Ho
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2016
  • National performance-based design methods and prescribed standards for various input data not defined as separated regulation, ASET and RSET fire and evacuation simulations on the data cited by different designers. This is also directly connected reliability problems for the evacuation simulation and performance-based fire. standardizing the various input to performance-based fire and evacuation simulations of a similar risk, regardless of the experience of designer or technical skills. The performance-based targets proper fire-fighting and emergency equipment installed reasonable initial investment cost to done ensure safety.

Microscopic Evacuation Simulation in Large-scale Buildings using EgresSIM (EgresSIM을 이용한 대형건축물의 미시적 대피시뮬레이션)

  • Kwak, Suyeong;Nam, Hyunwoo;Jun, Chulmin
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.53-61
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    • 2016
  • This paper introduces 'EgresSIM', which is microscopic evacuation simulation software. EgresSIM developed in this paper is a three-dimensional (3D) pedestrian evacuation simulator based on the improved model advanced from the floor field model(FFM), a microscopic pedestrian model. This software can simulate large size buildings that consist of a number of floors, stairs, rooms, and exit doors. Moreover, this software can arrange several hundreds or thousands of pedestrians in indoor space and check their movements through the 3D viewer in real time, as well as produce detailed results about evacuation situations such as which paths are employed by individual pedestrians, how long does it takes to evacuate, and how many evacuees are gathered at each of the exit doors. Building data needed in the simulation are constructed as XML files according to pre-defined indoor data models and information of simulation results is also created as XML log files. A moving pattern of pedestrians can be represented in many ways by adjusting the sensitivity parameters of two walk models supported by EgresSIM. Thus, evacuation simulation can be done based on many assumptions of situations such as movement to the nearest exit door or blackout after outage.

A Study on Fire and Evacuation of TrainingShip HANBADA using FDS (FDS를 이용한 실습선 한바다호 화재 및 피난 연구)

  • KIM, Won-Ouk
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.380-385
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    • 2017
  • Maritime accidents caused by a ship include collisions, sinking, stranding and fire etc. This study is intending to consider fire accidents among such diverse marine accidents. It is much likely that various sorts of fires break out because crews are living in a narrow space for long periods of time consequent on the ship's characteristic of sailing on the sea. This study carried out a simulation through the special program for fire analysis - FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) in order to find the effective evacuation time, i.e. life survival time. Particularly, this study did comparative analysis of the influence on the survival of cadets based on the collected simulation data by fire size and sort. As a result of the analysis, It was analyzed the Evacuation Allowable Limit Temperature $60^{\circ}C$ and resulted that there is no influence in evacuation by temperature. In case of visibility analysis, it reached to 5m which is the Evacuation Allowable Limit at 117 seconds under the condition of wood fire in 1MW. When there is Kerosene in 1MW, it took 92.4 seconds to reach by 5m which is the Evacuation Allowable Limit. Theoretical evacuation time for the non-tilted ship was 118.8 seconds in 1MW sized fire so it is shown that the most passengers are met the evacuation safety in case of wood fire. However, the majority of passengers could not be ensured the evacuation safety in Kerosene case.