The influence of the location of emergency exits over the distance to be covered to the exit of an environment
In a building environment design, the positioning, size and quantity of the exits are fundamental aspects and have an intense relationship with the fire safety of the environments. An aspect that is influenced by these parameters is the average distance to be covered by occupants to the nearest exit...
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ojs-article-828392019-03-12T22:02:51Z The influence of the location of emergency exits over the distance to be covered to the exit of an environment Braga, Henrique Costa Moita, Gray Farias Almeida, Paulo Eduardo Maciel de exits; evacuation; fire; escape time; safety index In a building environment design, the positioning, size and quantity of the exits are fundamental aspects and have an intense relationship with the fire safety of the environments. An aspect that is influenced by these parameters is the average distance to be covered by occupants to the nearest exits during an escape in an emergency situation. The average distance could be used as a complementary measure of the safety of an environment (a lower average distance value indicates a probable faster evacuation rate). Thus, a pathfinder type algorithm to determine the value of the average distances to be covered to the nearest exit during an escape of an environment was detailed and implemented. Computational experiments were performed and the relationship between positioning, quantity and size of the exits and the value of the average distances were studied. The main conclusion was the importance of keeping the exits as far away from each other as possible in a given environment, so that a small distance to be covered could be obtained. ANTAC - Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído CAPES 2019-03-12 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/view/82839 Ambiente Construído; v. 19, n. 2 (2019): Edição Especial sobre Resíduos como Materiais de Construção; 219-232 Ambiente Construído; v. 19, n. 2 (2019): Edição Especial sobre Resíduos como Materiais de Construção; 219-232 Ambiente Construído; v. 19, n. 2 (2019): Edição Especial sobre Resíduos como Materiais de Construção; 219-232 1678-8621 1415-8876 eng https://seer.ufrgs.br/ambienteconstruido/article/view/82839/52286 Direitos autorais 2019 Ambiente Construído https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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The influence of the location of emergency exits over the distance to be covered to the exit of an environment |
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In a building environment design, the positioning, size and quantity of the exits are fundamental aspects and have an intense relationship with the fire safety of the environments. An aspect that is influenced by these parameters is the average distance to be covered by occupants to the nearest exits during an escape in an emergency situation. The average distance could be used as a complementary measure of the safety of an environment (a lower average distance value indicates a probable faster evacuation rate). Thus, a pathfinder type algorithm to determine the value of the average distances to be covered to the nearest exit during an escape of an environment was detailed and implemented. Computational experiments were performed and the relationship between positioning, quantity and size of the exits and the value of the average distances were studied. The main conclusion was the importance of keeping the exits as far away from each other as possible in a given environment, so that a small distance to be covered could be obtained. |
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