Methods Of Design For Means Of Egress: Towards A Quantitative Comparison Of National Code Requirements

Kendik, Ezel

doi:10.3801/iafss.fss.1-497

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“…The study of the requirements for stair widths in fire codes has been the subject of a large research debate for several years [14][15][16][17][18]. The traditional concept of unit widths of means of escape refers to the width of a stair required for a single person to evacuate [14].…”

Section: The Need For Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Transparency vs magic numbers: The development of stair design requirements in the Italian Fire Safety Code

Gissi

Ronchi

Purser³

2017

Fire Safety Journal

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Section: The Need For Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Transparency vs magic numbers: The development of stair design requirements in the Italian Fire Safety Code

Gissi

Ronchi

Purser³

2017

Fire Safety Journal

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“…Few of the models which are currently available to the public are FPETool [6] , EVACNET4 [7,8] , TIMETEX [9] , WAYOUT [10] , STEPS [11,12] , PEDROUTE / PAXPORT [13,14] , ASERI [15] , building EXODUS [16] , EXITT [17,18] , models available on consultancy basis are PathFinder [19] , EESCAPE [20] , Myriad [21,22] , there are other models which have not yet been released and others which are no longer in use.…”

Section: Review Of Existing Evacuation Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimum Evacuation in Public Gathering Places during the Time of Disaster

P¹,

B²,

Kumar³

2007

Automation and Robotics in Construction &Amp;#8213; Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics

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Urbanization is rapidly increasing all over the world. Past 2 decades in India, many cities have attracted large population. Reasons being the belief of better education, health care, job/business prospects, etc. For meeting the demands of population density, many high-rise structures and large public gathering places are emerging in cities. Places where few thousands of people can meet are quite common in major cities. It is due to this reason, evacuation at the public gathering places has gained a lot of importance. Though some traditional hand calculation procedures are available for the estimation of evacuation time, we have attempted to simulate the same in more realistic and reliable way by using latest computational techniques. In this paper, we developed a procedure to calculate the optimum evacuation time by taking input parameters like dimensions of the building, number of doors, size of doors, number of people and seating arrangement. This tool will help architect in efficient design of a public gathering place.

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“…The transfer speed is determined by the relationship between speed and density in fundamental diagrams of traffic flow. EVACNET4 model (Kisko et al, 1998), EESCAPE (Kendik, 1995), EGRESSPRO (Simenko and Peter, 2001) and TIMTEX (Harrington, 1996) are widely known as macroscopic evacuation models. One of the most critical issues of the macroscopic evacuation models is that they are all based on the assumption of pedestrian homogeneity, which cannot explain the interactions between different types of pedestrians.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%