Engineering Escape
Mathematical Modelling of Evacuation
Published in July 2007
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-415-27131-8 (ISBN)
Description
The ability to enable efficient circulation of people in heavily populated enclosures is important to the day to day operation of large commercial buildings such as airport terminals, railway and underground stations, shopping malls and cinemas. More importantly, it is an essential design feature in the event of emergency situations. Fire safety engineers require both a fundamental understanding of the range of human psychological and physiological responses to fire and at least a rudimentary understanding of the theoretical basis supporting evacuation models to appreciate their limitations and capabilities. The accompanying CD-ROM provides an example of evacuation modelling software allowing the reader to gain experience in using the methods described in the book. This book will allow engineers to design and implement safety measures that can potentially control, or at least reduce, the impact of fire or other emergency requiring an evacuation. It will be of interest to those performing fire engineering calculations and those involved in designing circulation spaces (i.e. non-emergency applications) such as the design of exhibitions, passenger terminals, event management, etc.
The book will also have a strong appeal in sectors outside the built environment, for example in the aviation, marine and rail.
The book will also have a strong appeal in sectors outside the built environment, for example in the aviation, marine and rail.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
120 line figures
ISBN-13
978-0-415-27131-8 (9780415271318)
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07/2007
Spon Press
€69.51
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Content
Part One: Introduction. 1.1 Historical Developments in Fire Safety. 1.2 Description of (In)Famous Incidents. 1.3 Movement Between Prescriptive and Performance-based Codes. 1.4 Failure of Prescriptive Codes Based on Fatality Statistics. Part Two: Modelling. 2.1 Description Of - Nature Of the Problem. 2.2 Goals for Evacuation Modelling. 2.3 Acknowledged Limitations of the Process. Part Three: Panic. 3.1 Description - Nature of Problem. 3.2 Manipulation of Panic by the Media. 3.3 Implications of the Refutation of Panic as a Common Response to Emergencies. Part Four: Factors Affecting Occupant Evacuation. 4.1 Configurational Factors. 4.2 Procedural Factors. 4.3 Environmental Factors. Part Five: Occupant Behavioural Response. 5.1 Behavioural Response to Configurational Factors. 5.2 Behavioural Response to Procdural Factors. 5.3 Behavioural Response to Environmental Factors. 5.4 Expectec Occupant Behaviour. Part Six: Theoretical Responses to Occupant Behaviour. 6.1Psychological / Sociological Models. 6.2 Physical / Mathematical / Evacuation Based Model. Part Seven: Attempts at Modelling Occupant Behaviour. 7.1 The Nature of Evacuation Modelling. 7.2 Methods Used to Represent the Enclosure. 7.3 Methods Used to Represent the Population. 7.4 Methods Used to Represent Occupant Behaviour. 7.5 Simulation Models. 7.6 Optimisation Models. 7.7 Risk Assessment Models. Part Eight: Validation Process. 8.1 Different Forms of Validation-Functional, Component Testing, Quantitative / Qualitative. 8.2 The Availability of Data Sets. Part Nine: Evacuation Modelling in Practice. 9.1 Description of Case Studies. 9.2 Models Used to Simulate Case Studies. 9.3 Case 1. 9.4 Case 2. 9.5 Sensitivity of Models to Data / Data Required / Configuration of Models. 9.6 Analysis- Results Produced. 9.7 Discussion