Underground mining fire hazards and the optimization of emergency evacuation strategies (EES): The issues, existing methodology and limitations, and way forward

OB Salami, G Xu, AR Kumar, RI Pushparaj - Process Safety and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Underground mine fires are associated with thermal and non-thermal hazards. Thermal
hazards are primarily characterized by the release of heat into the underground confined …

BIM integrated smart monitoring technique for building fire prevention and disaster relief

MY Cheng, KC Chiu, YM Hsieh, IT Yang… - Automation in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Modern high-rise buildings may be configured into spaces of widely varying specifications.
This situation creates a diverse building environment with multiple variables that make fire …

Deep neural network-based optimization framework for safety evacuation route during toxic gas leak incidents

SK Seo, YG Yoon, J Lee, J Na, CJ Lee - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2022 - Elsevier
Evacuation planning is important for reducing casualties in toxic gas leak incidents.
However, most evacuation plans are too qualitative to be applied to unexpected practical …

3D point cloud semantic modelling: Integrated framework for indoor spaces and furniture

F Poux, R Neuville, GA Nys, R Billen - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
3D models derived from point clouds are useful in various shapes to optimize the trade-off
between precision and geometric complexity. They are defined at different granularity levels …

Optimizing fire emergency evacuation routes in underground coal mines: A lightweight network flow approach

S Lotero, V Androulakis, H Khaniani… - … and Underground Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
In underground mine fires, the presence of smoke, toxic gasses, and high heat can
significantly hinder the evacuees from identifying the optimal path to safety. This study …

A risk-based model of evacuation route optimization under fire

J Li, H Zhu - Procedia engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Emergency evacuation plan plays a key role for fire risk management and successful
evacuation. In this work, a topological model of evacuation routes is established and the …

Dynamic optimisation of evacuation route in the fire scenarios of offshore drilling platforms

Y Wang, W Ma, T Wang, J Liu, X Wang, M Sean… - Ocean …, 2022 - Elsevier
When fire occurs in an offshore platform, evacuation plays a vital role in safeguarding the
evacuees' lives. How to efficiently evacuate to minimize the loss of life is a dynamic problem …

Bi-objective rescue path selection optimization for mine fires based on quantitative risk assessment

X Shi, W Gai, K Xu - Safety science, 2022 - Elsevier
Fires are one of the most common accidents that occur in mines, and they result in huge
losses. In a mine fire accident, choosing the shortest path for rescue can speed up the …

The smart point cloud: Structuring 3D intelligent point data

F Poux - 2019 - orbi.uliege.be
Discrete spatial datasets known as point clouds often lay the groundwork for decision-
making applications. Eg, we can use such data as a reference for autonomous cars and …

A semantic framework for on-site evacuation routing based on awareness of obstacle accessibility

H Deng, M Tian, Z Ou, Y Deng - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
The dynamic nature of construction sites increases the complexity of evacuation routing in
emergency situation. The existing emergency response in construction site adopts manual …