Evacuation modelling analysis within the operational research context: A combined approach for improving enclosure designs

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1005-1016

  Tavares, R Machado ^a   Galea, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Evacuation models; Fire design; Fire safety codes; Numerical optimisation techniques; Response surface models

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EVACUATION MODELS; FIRE DESIGN; FIRE SAFETY CODES; NUMERICAL OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES; RESPONSE SURFACE MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FIRE MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; POSITIONING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 59049105382     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.07.019     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Tavares R.M., Tavares J.M.L., and Parry-Jones S.L. The use of a mathematical multicriteria decision-making model for selecting the fire origin. Building and Environment 43 12 (2008) 2090-2100
2. Bryan JL. A selected historical review on human behaviour in fire. Fire protection engineering magazine SFPE. 2002; 16.
3. Ko S., Spearpoint M., and Teo A. Trial evacuation of an industrial premises and evacuation model comparison. Fire Safety Journal (2006) 10.1016/j.firesaf.2006.07.001
4. PED - pedestrian and evacuation dynamics. Proceedings of the 2nd international conference (2003), CMS Press. 1-904521-08-8 pp V
5. Tavares R.M. Evacuation processes versus evacuation models: "Quo Vadimus?". Fire Technology (2008) 10.1007/s10694-008-0063-7
6. Fahy, R.F. Tools for the simulation of human behaviour. Fire protection engineering magazine SFPE. 2002; 16.
7. The SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: Society of Fire Protection Engineers. pp. 3367-3380. Guylene Proulx. Section 3: Hazard calculations. Movement of People: the evacuation timing. [Chapter 3 3-13]; Harold E. "Bud" Nelson, Frederick W. Mowrer. Emergency movement [Chapter 3 3-14].
8. Friedman R. An international survey of computer models for fire and smoke. Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 4 3 (1992) 81-92
9. Pelechano N., and Malkawi A. Evacuation simulation models: challenges in modeling high rise building evacuation with cellular automata approaches. Automation in Construction 17 4 (2008) 377-385
10. Olenick S.M., and Carpenter D.J. An updated international survey of computer models for fire and smoke. SFPE Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 13 2 (2003) 87-110
11. Kawagoe K. Fire behaviour in rooms (1958), Building Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan Report No. 27
12. SFPE Engineering guide to human behavior in fire. 2002.
13. In: Buchanan A.H. (Ed). Fire engineering design guide. 2nd ed. (2001), Centre of Advanced Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 83-84
14. Sime J.D. The concept of panic. In: Canter D. (Ed). Fires and human behaviour. 2nd ed. (1990), Fulton, London
15. Tavares R.M., Gwynne S., and Galea E.R. Collection and analysis of pre-evacuation time data collected from evacuation trials conducted in library facilities in Brazil. Journal of Applied Fire Science 15 1 (2006-2007) 23-40
16. Foulds L.R. Optimization techniques: an introduction (1948), UTM (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics). 0 387 90586-3
17. Campello, F.M. de Souza. Decisoes Racionais em situacoes de incerteza. Brasil: Editora Universitaria UFPE. 2002.
18. McDonald DB, Grantham WJ, Tabor WL, Murphy MJ. Response surface model development for global and local optimization using radial functions. 2000; AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO.
19. Dennis B.H., Egorov I.N., Han Z.-X., Dulikravich G.S., and Poloni C. Multi-objective optimization of turbomachinery cascade for minimum loss, maximum loading, and maximum gap-to-chord ratio. International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engines (2001)
20. Gwynne S., Galea E.R., Lawrence L., and Filippidis L. Modelling occupant interaction with fire conditions using the building EXODUS evacuation model. Fire Safety Journal 36 (2001) 327-357
21. Park J., Gwynne S., Galea E.R., and Lawrence P. Validating the building EXODUS evacuation model using data from an unannounced trial evacuation. In: Galea E.R. (Ed). Proceedings of 2nd international pedestrian and evacuation dynamics conference (2003), CMS Press, Greenwich, UK. 1904521088 295-306
22. Gwynne S., Galea E.R., and Lawrence P. The introduction of social adaptation within evacuation modelling. Fire and Materials 30 4 (2006) 285-309 10.1002/fam.913
23. Filippidis L., Galea E., Gwynne S., and Lawrence P. Representing the influence of signage on evacuation behaviour within an evacuation model. Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 16 1 (2006) 37-73 10.1177/1042391506054298
24. CAPRA, Fritjot. The web of life - a new scientific understanding of living systems. USA, 1996.
25. Tavares MR, Galea ER. Numerical optimisation applied to evacuation analysis, PED (Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics) Conference 2008. In: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on pedestrian and evacuation dynamics. Wuppertal, Germany, in press..
26. Montgomery D.C. Design and analysis of experiments. 6th ed. (2005), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-48735-X; WIE ISBN 978-0471733041
27. Box G.E.P., Hunter W.G., and Hunter J.S. Statistics for experiments: an introduction to design, data analysis, and model building (1978), Wiley-Interscience. 0 471 09315-7
28. Box G.E.P., and Draper N.R. Empirical model-building and response surfaces (1987), John Wiley & Sons
29. VisualDOC design optimization software, version 1.0 reference manual (1998), Vanderplaats Research and Development, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO
30. Xu L., Reinikainen T., and Ren W. A simulation-based multi-objective design optimization of eletronic packaging under thermal cycling and bend loading (2003), IEEE
31. Venter, G., Sobieszczanski-Sobieski, J. Multidisciplinary optimization of a transport aircraft wing using particle swarm optimization. Vanderplaats Research and Development Inc./NASA Langley Research Center; 2004.