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| Title: | A model for determining optimal required safe evacuation time of a building during fire |
| Authors: | Yadav, Pradeep Kumar
Sharma, Rajeev Kumar
Sharma, Sunil K
Kumar, Rajiv |
| Keywords: | 2011
Building fire |
| Issue Date: | 19-Dec-2011 |
| Abstract: | An emergency evacuation is a rapid mass removal of occupants from a dangerous environment to a safer space in a minimum possible time during fire. Such events can also occur, during religious gatherings, music concerts, cinema hall and other similar assemblies. Adequate numbers of escape routes of sufficient size are a prior requirement for an efficient movement and rapid evacuation of a building. Inadequate sizes of routes create bottlenecks and backtracking that may result stampede, crushing and trampling. Therefore, it is essential to examine the building design with respect to number and size of exits, stairwells and other physical features of the building egress plan. The complexity of the evacuation process is associated with the flow of occupants through various paths available inside the building. Width of these components plays a key role during an emergency evacuation. Required Safe Evacuation Time [RSET] is an important factor while evacuating the any building during emergency. During evacuation process RSET must be less than Available Safe Egress Time [ASET]. In building fires ASET is defined as the time between fire detection and the onset of conditions which are hazardous to continue human occupancy. In this paper a methodology has been discussed to determine the optimal value of RSET. |
| Description: | Proceedings of Fire Science and Technology- Research & Its Implementations- Nov 3-4, 2011, pp 216-226 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/647 |
| Appears in Collections: | Published Articles
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