Risk analysis of people evacuation and its path optimization during tunnel fires using virtual reality experiments

X Zhang, L Chen, J Jiang, Y Ji, S Han, T Zhu… - … and Underground Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
The number of urban tunnels has been increasing rapidly, accompanied by frequent tunnel
fire accidents owing to the complex tunnel structure and large traffic flow. In this study, a full …

VR-based fire evacuation in underground rail station considering staff's behaviors: model, system development and experiment

Z Wang, Z Mao, Y Li, L Yu, L Zou - Virtual Reality, 2023 - Springer
As an enclosed and normally crowded environment, underground rail station is a dangerous
place when fire emergency happens. Traditional methods usually adopt simulation or drill to …

Simulation of tunnel fire for evacuation safety assessment

K Yamamoto, Y Sawaguchi, S Nishiki - Safety, 2018 - mdpi.com
When a fire breaks out in a tunnel, smoke diffuses widely in the direction of the ventilation
airflow. As a result, the evacuation environment may not be sufficiently safe during a fire …

Simulation of people's evacuation in tunnel fire

G Yang, L Peng, J Zhang, Y An - Journal of central south university of …, 2006 - Springer
The simulation model Tunev (tunnel evacuation) was developed for people's evacuation in
tunnel fire. It contains simple database of the people's behavioral reaction and structure …

Risk analysis of road tunnels: A computational fluid dynamic model for assessing the effects of natural ventilation

C Caliendo, G Genovese, I Russo - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
We have developed an appropriate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model for
assessing the exposure to risk of tunnel users during their evacuation process in the event of …

Quantitative assessment method for road tunnel fire safety: Development of an evacuation simulation method using CFD-derived smoke behavior

M Seike, N Kawabata, M Hasegawa - Safety science, 2017 - Elsevier
This study proposes a quantitative method for assessing road tunnel fire safety based on a
numerical simulation of in-smoke evacuation. Considering evacuation in tunnels which is a …

Fire protection and evacuation analysis in underground interchange tunnels by integrating BIM and numerical simulation

Z Liu, X Gu, R Hong - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rescue and evacuation of underground interchange tunnels after a fire are challenging.
Therefore, a method of integrating building information modeling (BIM) and a fire dynamic …

Quantitative risk assessment of road tunnel fire safety: Improved evacuation simulation model

P Ntzeremes, K Kirytopoulos, G Filiou - ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
With a view to enhance road network's safety, it is crucial to focus primarily on its critical
infrastructures, one part of which is tunnels. Fire safety of tunnels concerned intensely the …

Study of tunnel fires during construction using a model scale tunnel

Y Yao, YZ Li, A Lönnermark, H Ingason… - … and Underground Space …, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents a study on the characteristics of tunnel fires during construction. A model-
scale tunnel was built and fire tests were conducted. The tunnel consists of an inclined …

Numerical investigation on fire accident and evacuation in a urban tunnel for different traffic conditions

A Król, M Król - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
A fire outbreak in a urban tunnel with congested traffic may pose a great danger to all tunnel
users. The main threat to human life in an urban tunnel fire is thick toxic smoke quickly filling …