Fire Engineering Approach of People Evacuation Assessment With a Practical Demonstration
Petr Kučera, Jiri Pokorny · Safety Engineering · 2011
This article presents some of the possible ways of an examination of people evacuation by fire engineering methods. Application of described methods is illustrated in a practical example of an office object. The expansion of fire in a part of characteristic floor of high-rise office is simulated by the selected zone (CFAST) and field (FDS) fire models. Some of the results obtained by the simulation, especially smoke layer decrease in the area and cumulative gas layer temperature, represent limit criteria for examination of safe evacuation from the assessed area. The article is an example of possible application of combination of manual computational processes and fire models.