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Testing the predictive capabilities of evacuation models for tunnel fire safety analysis

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The scope of this paper is to test the predictive capabilities of different evacuation modelling approaches to simulate tunnel fire evacuations. The study is based on the a priori modelling (prior to the experiments) vs a posteriori modelling (after the data collection stage) of a set of tunnel evacuation experiments performed in a tunnel in Stockholm, Sweden. Different degrees of modelling sophistication were employed: (A) the analytical calculations described in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) handbook, (B) an individual use of evacuation models and (C) a multi-model approach, presented in this paper for the first time. Six evacuation models were employed, namely FDS+Evac, BuildingEXODUS, STEPS, Pathfinder, Gridflow and Simulex. The author has a priori simulated the experiments with different degrees of modelling sophistication. The experimental results were used to simulate a posteriori the same scenarios. Results showed that: (1) the use of model default settings produced significant differences in the results, (2) the calibration of models input required different degrees of effort in relation to the sophistication embedded in the model, i.e., whether it used deterministic assumptions or not, (3) analytical calculations were not a sufficient method to simulate complex tunnel evacuation processes, i.e., exit choice in smoke, (4) the use of a single model was not sufficient if the modellers had not information to calibrate the input, (5) the multi-model approach was a useful tool to test the sensitivity of the results to the model employed and the model sub-algorithms.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

141-153

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Safety Science

Volym

59

Issue

November

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Other Civil Engineering
  • Building Technologies

Nyckelord

  • Emergency evacuation
  • Evacuation modelling
  • Human behaviour in fire
  • Multi-model approach
  • Tunnel safety

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Evacuation

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0925-7535