<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Each building must meet requirements for safe evacuation in order to prevent casualties. Therefore methods for evaluation of evacuation are used when designing buildings. In the paper, calculation methods were tested on three real buildings. The testing used methods of evacuation time calculation pursuant to Slovak standards and evacuation time calculation using the buildingExodus simulation software. If calculation methods have been suitably selected taking into account the nature of evacuation and at the same time if correct values of parameters were entered, we will be able to obtain almost identical times of evacuation in comparison with real results obtained from simulation. The difference can range from 1% to 27%.</p></abstract>

Each building must meet requirements for safe evacuation in order to prevent casualties. Therefore methods for evaluation of evacuation are used when designing buildings. In the paper, calculation methods were tested on three real buildings. The testing used methods of evacuation time calculation pursuant to Slovak standards and evacuation time calculation using the buildingExodus simulation software. If calculation methods have been suitably selected taking into account the nature of evacuation and at the same time if correct values of parameters were entered, we will be able to obtain almost identical times of evacuation in comparison with real results obtained from simulation. The difference can range from 1% to 27%.

Comparison of calculation and simulation of evacuation in real buildings

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Architectural Engineering

Selected Scientific Papers - Journal of Civil Engineering

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Each building must meet requirements for safe evacuation in order to prevent casualties. Therefore methods for evaluation of evacuation are used when designing...

Comparison of calculation and simulation of evacuation in real buildings

Published Online: Mar 30, 2018

Page range: 107 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sspjce-2018-0010

Keywords
evacuation of building, evacuation time, calculation methods, input values, simulation

© 2018 Martin Szénay et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Comparison of calculation and simulation of evacuation in real buildings

Published Online: Mar 30, 2018

Page range: 107 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sspjce-2018-0010

Keywordsevacuation of building, evacuation time, calculation methods, input values, simulation

© 2018 Martin Szénay et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
evacuation of building, evacuation time, calculation methods, input values, simulation