A Study on the Improvement of Domestic Evacuation Safety Assessment through Case Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2333-2336
Author(s):  
Su Roh Park ◽  
Eun Kyoung Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Performance Based Design ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Scientific Performance ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Safety Design ◽  
Evacuation Safety ◽  
Behavior Characteristics

Recently buildings have undergone many changes with more high-rise, larger and more complex structures being developed. All over the world, safety designs for buildings are being established through a variety of experiments and analysis of the planning and design stage of a comprehensive and scientific performance-based safety design for evacuation. In this study, this study seeks to present development directions for criteria related to domestic evacuation safety assessment through case studies. As a results, it is necessary to develop simulation programs as well as fire and evacuation scenarios that reflect domestic characteristics such as human behavior characteristics and space and occupants’ speed of movement so that appropriate performance-based design can be established. In addition, as the evacuation safety assessment-related standards are being manifested in building law and fire prevention regulations, it is determined that the need to develop integrated codes is immediate.

scholarly journals Development and Validation of a Post-Earthquake Safety Assessment System for High-Rise Buildings Using Acceleration Measurements

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 1758
Author(s):  
Koji Tsuchimoto ◽  
Yasutaka Narazaki ◽  
Billie F. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Model Updating ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Steel Building ◽  
Earthquake Safety

After a major seismic event, structural safety inspections by qualified experts are required prior to reoccupying a building and resuming operation. Such manual inspections are generally performed by teams of two or more experts and are time consuming, labor intensive, subjective in nature, and potentially put the lives of the inspectors in danger. The authors reported previously on the system for a rapid post-earthquake safety assessment of buildings using sparse acceleration data. The proposed framework was demonstrated using simulation of a five-story steel building modeled with three-dimensional nonlinear analysis subjected to historical earthquakes. The results confirmed the potential of the proposed approach for rapid safety evaluation of buildings after seismic events. However, experimental validation on large-scale structures is required prior to field implementation. Moreover, an extension to the assessment of high-rise buildings, such as those commonly used for residences and offices in modern cities, is needed. To this end, a 1/3-scale 18-story experimental steel building tested on the shaking table at E-Defense in Japan is considered. The importance of online model updating of the linear building model used to calculate the Damage Sensitive Features (DSFs) during the operation is also discussed. Experimental results confirm the efficacy of the proposed approach for rapid post-earthquake safety evaluation for high-rise buildings. Finally, a cost-benefit analysis with respect to the number of sensors used is presented.

The Planning and Construction of a Regional Financial Center: Financial Structure

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Xiong Zhong ◽  
Shuanglian Chen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Financial Structure ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Local Finance ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
Planning And Construction

The construction of regional financial center can gather a large amount of financial production elements and capital, which plays an important role in promoting regional economic development. Based on this, the analysis of the planning and design of regional financial center based on the financial structure was studied. Firstly, the research progress of regional financial center and financial structure was expounded. Then, on the basis of the functional demand of the financial center, the planning and design method of the regional financial center was put forward. The regional center building in Nanjing was taken as an example, and the specific planning and design of the traffic, super high-rise landmark buildings, squares and other buildings were analyzed with the advantage of location. The research shows that the design and planning of the regional financial center can provide the new coordinates of globalization for the local finance.

Design for maintainability tool for nano-façade coating applications on high-rise facades in the tropics

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Conejos ◽  
Aristotle Ubando ◽  
Michael Yit Lin Chew
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
Design For Maintainability ◽  
Façade Coatings

PurposeThe self-cleaning properties of nanostructured titanium dioxide facade coatings are useful in Singapore's tropical climate. However, its potential maintenance issues need to be determined right at the design stage. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the development of the design for maintainability tool which is a multicriteria design decision score sheet that evaluates the maintainability potential of nano-facade coating applications on high-rise façades with concrete and stonemasonry finishes and curtain walls.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative methods (expert and practitioner surveys) are conducted in this research study. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and sensitivity analysis were used to develop a robust Design for Maintainability tool.FindingsSafety measures indicator received the highest weighted score by experts, while the maximizing performance, minimizing risk, minimizing negative environmental impact and minimizing consumption of matter and energy were the top ranking main criteria by both experts and practitioners. The top ranked design for maintainability sub-criteria identified by practitioners and experts were risk management, maintenance considerations, climatic conditions, safety measures, lifecycle cost and maintenance access, sun's path, rainfall intensity, biological growth measures and building age profile.Originality/valueMost researches on the maintainability of nano-façade coatings uses experimentation to test the durability of nano-façade coatings, while this study focuses on design based empirical data such as establishing and ranking the list of design for maintainability criteria or indicators to minimize future defects and maintenance issues. The design for maintainability tool contributes to the maintainability of nano-façade coatings leading to maximizing its performance while minimizing cost, risks, resource consumption and negative environmental impact.

A graphical inherent safety assessment technique for preliminary design stage

2019 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 275-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syaza I. Ahmad ◽  
Haslenda Hashim ◽  
Mimi H. Hassim ◽  
Roslina Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Inherent Safety ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Preliminary Design Stage

Semi-Submersible Floater’s VIM Simulation Method for Mooring Line Safety Assessment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshifumi Fujiwara
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Oscillator Model ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Mooring Line ◽  
Floating Structure ◽  
Mooring Lines ◽  
Wake Oscillator Model ◽  
Wake Oscillator ◽  
The Time Domain

The author proposed the Vortex-induced Motion (VIM) simulation method of a semi-submersible type offshore floating structure using the wake oscillator model based on the potential theory and model test data. This method is easy to use for the time-domain simulation of the VIM amplitude, that is in-line, transverse and yaw motions, of the semi-submersible floater in case of being demented mooring safety assessment of that. The simulation method presented in this paper was modified the single circular floater simulation method with the wake oscillator model for a semi-submersible floater. Some empirical parameters, obtained from the systematic model tests used many semi-submersible floaters, are only decided from external form of the semi-submersible floaters, that is the column / lower hull ratio etc. This simulation method is able to indicate general VIM trend and to be used for the assessment of mooring lines safety in the design stage. Using the VIM amplitude simulation, fatigue damage of mooring lines on one sample semi-submersible floater was investigated as an example.

A Study on Children’s Participation in Rural Primary School Campus Landscape Planning and Design: Taking the Renewal Design of Huangtu Town Center Primary School Campus Landscape as Case of Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 2813-2818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Yang Hu ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Design Principle ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Evaluation Stage ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Town Center

Rural primary school undertakes important cultural mission in the construction of new socialist countryside. This thesis puts forward a design of children’s involvement in the planning and design of campus landscape. Taking the renewal design of Huangtu town center primary school as an example, the thesis will draw up the renewal design principle, and discuss the involving ways of children’s participation in the investigation and analysis stage, schematic design stage, and built evaluation stage. Also, it will expound the significance of children’s participation in the planning and design to children’s development and sustainable development of rural primary school and the cultural construction of new socialist countryside.

Sports Venues and Outdoor Landscape Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 726-731 ◽  
pp. 3600-3603
Author(s):  
Xiao Jie Chen
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Building Purpose ◽  
Sports Venues ◽  
Behavior Characteristics ◽  
Design And Construction

Sports venues and outdoor landscape is an important part of city green space system, is the embodiment of city landscape ecology, the subject is the city's ecological function. Starting from the venues, sports venues and building purpose and audience of visitors to the needs and behavior characteristics of people-oriented, fully consider the human needs and ornamental demand, planning and design of high grade, the deep connotation of the sports venues and outdoor space environment. Detailed summarized the main content of sports venues and outdoor landscape planning and design and construction management, the in-depth study of the sports venues and outdoor landscape planning design and construction management method. From the angle of landscape image analysis and planning and design of sports venues and outdoor landscape, the landscape elements simplified and summarized, and the outdoor landscape projects in the planning design and construction management process problems are discussed.

Novel Methodology for Inherent Safety Assessment in the Process Design Stage

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (17) ◽  
pp. 5921-5933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preeti Gangadharan ◽  
Ravinder Singh ◽  
Fangqin Cheng ◽  
Helen H. Lou
Keyword(s):  
Process Design ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Inherent Safety
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