scholarly journals High-Rise Building Evacuation Simulation Based on Physical Stamina of Evacuees

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Soonjo Kwon ◽  
Hyuncheol Kim ◽  
Taehwan Hwang ◽  
Jaemin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Evacuation Simulation ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Building Evacuation ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Evacuation Safety

Currently, high-rise buildings are being continuously constructed, and thus, it is necessary to predict evacuation safety in advance in case of emergency situations in high-rise buildings. However, current studies focus only on the movement of individuals in evacuation situations for predicting the final evacuation time. Therefore, in this study, a simulation of realistic evacuation in high-rise buildings was performed based on characteristics such as the physical stamina of evacuees. The evacuation simulation was performed on the world's tallest high-rise building, Burj Khalifa, and comparative verification was performed with and without consideration of the physical stamina of evacuees. The results of the simulation indicated that the total evacuation time significantly increases when physical stamina is considered. Hence, realistic evacuation in high-rise buildings is possible when the stamina of evacuees is considered.

scholarly journals Crowd Evacuation Behaviour Modeling and Simulation in 3D Platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1187-1192
Keyword(s):  
Exit Time ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Crowd Simulation ◽  
Evacuation Simulation ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Building Evacuation ◽  
Crowd Evacuation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Safe Condition

Crowd simulation is an active research domain and is crucial for simulating crowd behaviour in certain condition such as normal or panic situation. The simulation is to show the interaction between the individual in a crowd. Nowadays, there are many kinds of scenarios as well as simulation softwares that can be adapted to simulate a crowd simulation such as during emergency situation e.g. building evacuation. Crowd simulation in three-dimensional platform is fairly important in order to have a more realistic looks and movement of the crowd in one particular environment. The evacuation simulation is useful for the crowd in one confinement to seek for a safe exit path in shortest time possible and thus increase the occupant’s safety. The evacuation time is said to be in safe condition if all the evacuees successfully can get through the exit in minimal time. To aid in minimal exit time, the concept of faster-is-slower (bottleneck) must be solved as it can lead to more waiting time or delay during evacuation process. In this paper, it will discuss about the crowd simulation behavior, crowd simulation based on agent-based model, existing crowd simulation tools and the result of simulating the three-dimensional (3D) crowd evacuation time based on a number of exits variation in panic situation. The tools used to carry out the experiment is Anylogic software whereby the results show that it adheres to shorter evacuation time when the number of exit increases. The 3D layout design was following the original layout the faculty’s lower ground floor where the classrooms are mostly resided. The simulation is useful in order to estimate of evacuation time with different total number of exits to alleviate the faster-is-slower effect in case of any emergency situation happens at the faculty building.

An Ergonomic Evaluation of Hand-Carried, Track-Type, and Sled-Type Stair Descent Devices Used for High Rise Building Evacuation

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 976-980
Author(s):  
Steven A. Lavender ◽  
Jay P. Mehta ◽  
Glenn E. Hedman ◽  
Sanghyun Park ◽  
Paul A. Reichelt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Building Evacuation ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
Stair Descent ◽  
Ergonomic Evaluation

The Influence of Linear Architecture Space Structure on Building Evacuation Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Hong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Evacuation Simulation ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Psychological Reactions ◽  
Building Evacuation ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Building Energy Saving ◽  
Emergency Decision

Building evacuation has always been an important research question for government emergent agencies, architecture designer and building energy-saving researchers. However, most research works focus on the emergency decision theory, psychological reactions of individuals and groups, and evacuation simulation operations. Very few research works have been done to investigate the effect of architecture space structure on building evacuation time. This paper discusses the characteristic of linear architecture space structure in buildings, and analyze the influence of linear architecture space organization structure on the evacuation time in campus teaching buildings. The experiment results show that the combination of separated rooms in linear architecture space structure has a better evacuation efficiency than the combination of only large rooms.

scholarly journals Evacuation Safety and Time in Apartment using Egress Simulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Jaehoon Lee ◽  
Tian-Feng Yuan ◽  
Jin-Seok Choi ◽  
Youngsoo Yoon
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Evacuation Safety ◽  
Evacuation Plan ◽  
Egress Simulation

The special act for the management of disasters in super high-rise buildings and complex buildings with underground connections included the installation of a certain area of evacuation safety layer within 30 floors for high-rise buildings. However, for high-rise buildings with 30 stories or less, there is no separate regulation for evacuation safety floors. For high-rise apartments with less than 30 stories that do not have regulations for evacuation safety floors, an underground parking lot can be designated as a refuge shelter-in-place (SIP). This study aims to provide an optimal evacuation plan for evacuation simulations in high-rise apartments. This plan will ensure that the occupants are safely evacuated to the refuge SIP within a minimum timeframe. Evacuation simulations are conducted to establish an optimum evacuation plan. This is because there could be delays in the evacuation time as well as human casualties when evacuating to a SIP using stairs for the elderly and the disabled. Therefore, the elderly and the disabled use elevators to evacuate. The scenarios in this study were simulated on the basis of the number of occupants, the speed of the elevator, the number of evacuation stairs as SIP escape routes, and whether the elevator was used.

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