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Dan Diaconu-Şotropa
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2024.02.005
Technical University “Gh. Asachi”, Iassy 700050, Romania
The paper presents the analysis of a human evacuation from a higher education building located in Iassy, Romania, by means of engineering techniques to approach fire safety. Because in Romania (as in other European countries) fire safety design of buildings is prescriptive and not performance-based, a fire safety engineering approach arouse great interest in many countries such as the U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, England, Sweden, Finland, etc. This paper is based on the assumption of starting a fire in the space of a hall for festivities, located on the ground floor of the building, near two human evacuation routes; We consider two building evacuation scenarios: two exits and, respectively, just one exit (assuming that the second would be accidentally blocked).
CFD (computational fluid dynamics), FDS (fire dynamics simulator), fire safety engineering, smoke, human behaviour, fire simulation, educational building.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 18 (2024) 86-91 doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2024.02.005
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