TY - GEN
T1 - Efficiency analysis of elevator aided building evacuation using network model
AU - Ma, Jian
AU - Chen, Juan
AU - Liao, Yao-Jian
AU - Siuming, Lo
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Due to the reason that the number of occupants in high-rise building is usually very large, the evacuation process of the building would cost a lengthy time, which threats the life safety of the occupants under the circumstance of serious disaster such as fire. Thus to ensure the safety of occupants, different evacuation strategies have been proposed. One of the recently proposed strategies is that fire elevators should be used to aid evacuation so that the congestion level in the stairwell would be reduced. To explore the efficiency of elevator aided evacuation process, a network model for building evacuation is established in the present paper. Factors including the building plan component, the number of occupants and the configuration of the elevator status which affect the evacuation efficiency have been numerically investigated. A first principle for elevator aided evacuation has been summarized. Results also indicate that there is a top limit of the optimization process of the elevator aided evacuation. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
AB - Due to the reason that the number of occupants in high-rise building is usually very large, the evacuation process of the building would cost a lengthy time, which threats the life safety of the occupants under the circumstance of serious disaster such as fire. Thus to ensure the safety of occupants, different evacuation strategies have been proposed. One of the recently proposed strategies is that fire elevators should be used to aid evacuation so that the congestion level in the stairwell would be reduced. To explore the efficiency of elevator aided evacuation process, a network model for building evacuation is established in the present paper. Factors including the building plan component, the number of occupants and the configuration of the elevator status which affect the evacuation efficiency have been numerically investigated. A first principle for elevator aided evacuation has been summarized. Results also indicate that there is a top limit of the optimization process of the elevator aided evacuation. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
KW - Elevator evaucaiton
KW - Evacuation efficiency
KW - Performance based fire design
KW - Stair evacuatoin
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.02.137
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.02.137
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781627481632
VL - 52
SP - 259
EP - 266
BT - Procedia Engineering
T2 - 2012 International Conference on Performance-Based Fire and Fire Protection Engineering
Y2 - 17 October 2012 through 19 October 2012
ER -