Investigation and Simulation on Human Emergency Evacuation Behavior in an Academic Building

Abstract:

The field investigation of the human evacuation behavior of young people under time pressure in campus is conducted in Northeastern University of Shenyang. Based on the analysis of the observation of human evacuation behavior characteristics, scenarios of human evacuation in academic building under different evacuation management strategy are simulated and compared by FDS+Evac. The analysis results show that the crowd flow coefficient will be increasing under time pressure. The congestion of the crowd in academic building can be alleviated effectively on the base of batches evacuation management. The Real Safety Evacuation Time (RSET) can be reduced if the layout of exits is designed felicitously. Therefore, emergency drill such as fire drill is suggested to proceed periodically and regularly so that human can have opportunity to experience emergent and hazard surroundings to improve their ability of evacuation in emergency.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 444-445)
• Pages: 1564-1568
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.444-445.1564
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Rong Xue Shang, Pei Hong Zhang, Shu Jiao Tong, Yin Liang Guo
• Keywords: Batches Evacuation Management, Crowd Flow Coefficient, Evacuation Simulation, Field Investigation, Layout of Exits

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