TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Research on the influence of narrow and long obstacles with regular configuration on crowd evacuation efficiency based on tri-14 model with an example of supermarket
JO  - Fire (Basel, Switzerland)
A1  - Lu, Ligang
A1  - Ji, Jingwei
A1  - Zhai, Cheng
A1  - Wang, Shengcheng
A1  - Zhang, Zhen
A1  - Yang, Tiantian
SP  - e164
EP  - e164
VL  - 5
IS  - 5
N2  - Regular shelves configuration forms unique characteristics of internal obstacles in a supermarket. It is crucial to study the crowd evacuation affected by obstacles during accidents or disasters in supermarkets as assembly occupancies. Based on the Tri-14 model, this paper studied the influence of safety exit designs and shelves' configuration on the crowd evacuation efficiency with different densities in a supermarket through parameters and images. The results mainly indicate that: (1) The evacuation distance of farthest grid (Dfg) is the key factor to determine the total evacuation time of a low-density crowd. (2) For a high-density crowd, the closer the proportion ratio of the number of evacuees choosing each exit is to that of designed strand numbers of crowd flow at each exit, the higher the evacuation efficiency and average utilization efficiency of exits get; the scattered arrangement of exits will not necessarily lead to improving evacuation efficiency. Shelves' configuration could lead to the extension of Dfg, but the change may reduce evacuation time instead, especially when forming effective advanced-gathering zones. (3) Under appropriate conditions, the impact of shelves' configuration on evacuation efficiency can be negligible. This study has certain guiding significance for obstacle configuration and architectural design in large public gathering places.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2571-6255
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fire5050164
ID  - ref1
ER  -