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A Bim-Based Evacuation Assessment of Complex Rail Transit Stations under Post-earthquake Fires for Sustainable Buildings

Version 1 : Received: 5 January 2024 / Approved: 5 January 2024 / Online: 5 January 2024 (10:11:15 CET)

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Xu, H.; Wei, Y.; Tan, Y.; Zhou, Q. A BIM-FDS Based Evacuation Assessment of Complex Rail Transit Stations under Post-Earthquake Fires for Sustainable Buildings. Buildings 2024, 14, 429. Xu, H.; Wei, Y.; Tan, Y.; Zhou, Q. A BIM-FDS Based Evacuation Assessment of Complex Rail Transit Stations under Post-Earthquake Fires for Sustainable Buildings. Buildings 2024, 14, 429.

Abstract

Post-earthquake fire is considered as a catastrophic secondary disaster to personal and property safety. In this article, an evacuation assessment of a complex rail transit station under the post-earthquake fire for sustainable buildings was conducted from the internal environment and external rescue based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Fire Dynamic Simulation (FDS). The internal environment evacuation assessment simulation experiments were conducted in six hypothetical high-risk scenarios. Besides, the external rescue assessment was based on investigation of the route and the rescue time required during different periods of holidays and workdays. The results show that: (1) The influence caused by different size of fire area in the power distribution room is smaller than those in the train at the platform floor. (2) In the case of fire scenarios with the same fire area but different fire locations, the impact on temperature is greater than that on CO concentration in power distribution room. (3) It shows slight differences between single-floor fire and double-floor fire on evacuation of small area fire in power distribu-tion room. Meanwhile, optimized design recommendations are proposed to reduce the risk of emergency evacuation in both internal and external environments of rail transit stations for sustainable future buildings.

Keywords

Evacuation assessment; Post-earthquake fire; BIM; Complex rail transit station; Sustainable buildings

Subject

Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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