Head of Prevention Division, State Fire Supervision Board, Fire and Rescue Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, Švitrigailos g. 18, LT-03223 Vilnius, Lithuania ; Department of Bridges and Special Structures, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
There is a fire hazard in many civil buildings or engineering structures. Analysis of people evacuation time from the room or building is an important part of the designing process. Nevertheless, analysis of human behaviour in fire conditions is very complicated. Various factors should be evaluated, physical and even psychical, influencing safe evacuation of people from buildings. The analytical and calculating methods created are intended for analysis of people evacuation in fire conditions. Unfortunately, use of complicated calculations for determination of people evacuation requires too many resources; therefore, their application is limited. The calculation method for people evacuation presented in this paper is based on dependencies of the physical characteristics of people stream (density, intensity, movement speed) on people movement manner. The time required to evacuate people from people gathering room and building is determined in the numerical illustration of the method application. The article presents the comparison of simple calculation method and modeling with FDS+Evac software results of time for safe evacuation of people from rooms and buildings.
Papinigis, V., Geda, E., & Lukošius, K. (2010). Design of people evacuation from rooms and buildings. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 16(1), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2010.12
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