A Simulation Study for the Field Adaptability of Evacuation Device Development

Abstract

Due to an increase in economic development, populations have concentrated around cities, and complex buildings, apartments, and multi-use premises with multiple functions have increased in number. As many more people now live in apartments and multi-use premises, it is more difficult to evacuate these buildings using existing evacuation methods such as rescue crews, descending lifelines, multiple people evacuation devices, and elevation type evacuators. Subsequently, many more safety accidents are occurring. In order to solve this problem, a balcony evacuation device enabling successive evacuation has been developed. This paper examines the adaptability of the evacuation device by developing factor values through a comparative analysis of the deployment time of the balcony evacuation device and the evacuation speed of steps and ladders during KICT's site experiment and an evacuation simulation, and by applying the evacuation simulation to previously set scenarios. Furthermore, it is possible to apply this measurement to apartments, multi-use premises, and complex buildings that are faced with the problem of bidirectional simultaneous evacuation of many people. Keywords: Evacuation, Evacuation Device, Factor, Evacuation Simulation