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A study of comparative of evacuation time by platform type according to the propagation speed of smoke in subway platform fire (지하철 승강장 화재시 연기의 전파속도에 따른 승강장 형태별 피난시간 비교·분석 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Su;Rie, Dong-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.577-588
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    • 2017
  • There are many constraints, both economically and ethically that experimenting human evacuation behavior in situations such as fire. Therefore, the evacuation behavior is simulated based on the existing studies. In recent years, the foundation has been established as computer performance advances, models closer to reality can be studied. In this study, the evacuation time in the subway platform was analyzed from modeling human behavior and smoke propagation in a fire. The evacuation efficiency was also examined by dividing the shape of the subway station platform by the stair position and comparing the evacuation times for each platform. As a result, it was found that the side platform was longer than the island platform by 36.82% more time to evacuation. The shape of the stairs is most advantageous in terms of evacuation form side type platform was 210 seconds and island type platform was 186 seconds, when a fire occurs in the center of the platform. And most favorable in location of evacuation stairs were located at 2/5 point and 4/5 from depending on the step location.

A Investigation Study on the Development of Egress Simulation for Evacuation Safety Evaluation of Tokyo Fire Dept. Department in Japan (일본 동경소방청의 피난안정성평가 시뮬레이션 기술개발 사례연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Jin;Seo, Dong-Goo;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.216-222
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    • 2008
  • A large number of Computer-based fire growth and Evacuation model have been developed for various purpose and many of these are widely used for research and engineering. And Most of Egress simulation program are ordinary case only related to human behavior But Egress safety Evaluation is very closed to smog movement. It is well known that the Egress simulation program made by Tokyo Fire Department are related to smog movement. So It is the aim of this study to investigate on the Development of Egress Simulation for Evacuation Safety Evaluation of Tokyo Fire Dept. Department in Japan.

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A Development of Fire Training Simulator Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation (전산수치해석 기반 화재훈련 VR 시뮬레이터의 개발)

  • Cha, Moo-Hyun;Lee, Jai-Kyung;Park, Seong-Whan;Choi, Byung-Il
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.271-280
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    • 2009
  • An experience based training system concerning various fire situations which may result many casualties has been required to make rapid decision and improve the responsiveness. Recently, the necessity of virtual reality (VR) based training system which can replace a dangerous full-scale fire training and be easily adopted to the training or evaluation process is increasing. This study constructed tile virtual environment according to pre-defined scenarios, utilized the FDS(Fire Dynamics Simulator), three dimensional computational fire analysis program, to derive numerically simulated data on the propagation of fire. Finally, by visualizing the realistic fire and smoke behavior through virtual reality technique and implementing real-time interaction, we developed a VR-based fire training simulator. Also, in order to ensure the sense for tile real of a virtual world and reaI-time performance at the same time, we proposed appropriate data processing and space search algorithms, demonstrate d the value of proposed method through experiments.

A Study on the Modeling of Vertical Spread Fire of Exterior Panel by Fire Dynamic Simulation (FDS) (FDS를 이용한 외장재의 수직 확산 화재의 모델링에 관한 연구)

  • Min, Seh-Hong;Yoon, Jung-En
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2009
  • Considering heat insulation and beautiful sight of construction, making use of exterior panels is increasing. Recently the exterior panels now are weak very much, and so in consequence of the weakness fire spreads rapidly. Compared with internal fire, external vertical fire spread rate goes rapidly and it is extensive in spread range, therefore it is dangerous very much. Accordingly, under present condition of poor standard of exterior panels, it is required to take measure to meet the appropriate situation. In this study, by making use of FDS(Fire Dynamic Simulation) program about external vertical fire of high rise building, fire behavior is searched by computer. It is important that realizing by computer fire modeling about external vertical fire must be included certainly in procedure of fire performance design in the future. In modeling program, FDS version 5 is available, and aluminium composite panel is applied in external panels. In this study, for realizing of actual fire condition, FDS is applied by details of fire scenarios considering influence of wind.

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.

A Numerical Study of Flame Spread of A Surface Forest Fire (지표화 산불의 화염전파 수치해석)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Myung-Bo;Kim, Kwang-Il
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.80-83
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    • 2008
  • The characteristics of the spread of a forest fire are generally related to the attributes of combustibles, geographical features, and meteorological conditions, such as wind conditions. The most common methodology used to create a prediction model for the spread of forest fires, based on the numerical analysis of the development stages of a forest fire, is an analysis of heat energy transmission by the stage of heat transmission. When a forest fire breaks out, the analysis of the transmission velocity of heat energy is quantifiable by the spread velocity of flame movement through a physical and chemical analysis at every stage of the fire development from flame production and heat transmission to its termination. In this study, the formula used for the 1-dimensional surface forest fire behavior prediction model, derived from a numerical analysis of the surface flame spread rate of solid combustibles, is introduced. The formula for the 1-dimensional surface forest fire behavior prediction model is the estimated equation of the flame spread velocity, depending on the condition of wind velocity on the ground. Experimental and theoretical equations on flame duration, flame height, flame temperature, ignition temperature of surface fuels, etc., has been applied to the device of this formula. As a result of a comparison between the ROS(rate of spread) from this formula and ROSs from various equations of other models or experimental values, a trend suggesting an increasing curved line of the exponent function under 3m/s or less wind velocity condition was identified. As a result of a comparison between experimental values and numerically analyzed values for fallen pine tree leaves, the flame spread velocity reveals has a error of less than 20%.

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Beliefs of University Employees Leaving During a Fire Alarm: A Theory-based Belief Elicitation

  • Christopher Owens;Aurora B. Le;Todd D. Smith;Susan E. Middlestadt
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.201-206
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    • 2023
  • Background: Despite workplaces having policies on fire evacuation, many employees still fail to evacuate when there is a fire alarm. The Reasoned Action Approach is designed to reveal the beliefs underlying people's behavioral decisions and thus suggests causal determinants to be addressed with interventions designed to facilitate behavior. This study is a uses a Reasoned Action Approach salient belief elicitation to identify university employees' perceived advantages/disadvantages, approvers/disapprovers, and facilitators/barriers toward them leaving the office building immediately the next time they hear a fire alarm at work. Methods: Employees at a large public United States Midwestern university completed an online cross-sectional survey. A descriptive analysis of the demographic and background variables was completed, and a six-step inductive content analysis of the open-ended responses was conducted to identify beliefs about leaving during a fire alarm. Results: Regarding consequence, participants perceived that immediately leaving during a fire alarm at work had more disadvantages than advantages, such as low risk perception. Regarding referents, supervisors and coworkers were significant approvers with intention to leave immediately. None of the perceived advantages were significant with intention. Participants listed access and risk perception as significant circumstances with the intention to evacuate immediately. Conclusion: Norms and risk perceptions are key determinants that may influence employees to evacuate immediately during a fire alarm at work. Normative-based and attitude-based interventions may prove effective in increasing the fire safety practices of employees.

3D Affordance Field based Crowd Agent Behavior Simulation (3D 행동 유도장 기반 대규모 에이전트 행동 시뮬레이션)

  • Ok, Sooyol;Han, MyungWoo;Lee, Suk-Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.629-641
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    • 2021
  • Crowd behavior simulations have been studied to further accelerated and refined by parallelism by inducing agent-interacting forces into the image field representing the forces of attraction and repulsion. However, it was difficult to consider rapidly changing environments such as fire situations in buildings because texture images must be generated in advance simulation starts and simulations can only be performed in 2D spaces. In this paper, we propose a crowd agent behavior simulation method based on agent's 3D affordance field for flexible agent behavior in variable geomorphological environments in 3D space. The proposed method generates 3D affordance field related to agents and sensors in 3D space and defines the agent behavior in 3D space for the crowd behavior simulation based on an image-inducing field to a 3D space. Experimental results verified that our method enables the development of large-scale crowd behavior simulations that are flexible to various fire evacuation situations in 3D virtual spaces.

The Study on Predicting Behavior of Open Car Parks Using The Bare FR Steel Exposed to Fire (무피복 FR강을 사용한 철골주차장의 화재시 거동성상 예측에 관한 연구)

  • 김화중;이지희;이창준;추연희
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1998.04a
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    • pp.398-405
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    • 1998
  • This study investigated to the stability of open car parks below $600^{\circ}C$, as to predict behavior of bare FR steel structure noosed to fire. Especially, This study evaluated deformation of steel structure members of open car parks, considering change of material property by temperature. From the numerical analysis, we know the fact that the deformations comparing of standard values are stable to use the FR steel below 600 $^{\circ}C$ in open car parks plan

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A Study on the interior material Combustion Characteristics in residential facilities fire behavior prediction (주거시설 화재성상예측을 위한 내장재 연소특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gi Hyeon;Kim, Dong Eun;Seo, Dong Goo;Kwon, Young Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.65-66
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    • 2013
  • As a result of executing Cone Calorimeter experiment on 12 samples among combustibles of domestic residential facilities, flooring materials showed higher HRR and THR than wall papers, and in case of toxicity and SPR, wall papers having adhesive components in one side by considering use conveniences were measured high.

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