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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.11.5525

Elevator evacuation studies using a computer program  

Cha, Jong Ho (Division of Fire Service Administration, Howon University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.11, 2012 , pp. 5525-5533 More about this Journal
Abstract
Because of ultra-high buildings or deeper underground space, recent buildings have the potential that people who have lack of physical strength collapse before arriving at the emergency exits when catastrophes occur. In case of fire, the way to escape is that first, people take the stairs of the adjacent areas and then use the elevator to the remaining distance by road to escape notice or be safe. For this reason, the skyscrapers guidelines of Seoul for information on the elevator for evacuation has been established. Nevertheless, when designing buildings to install a elevator for evacuation separately is not effective, so passenger elevators installation according to the criteria are encouraged to use as evacuation elevators. However, this does not include detailed design guidelines so far. Therefore, this study was to investigate design method to use the passenger elevator for evacuation according to the domestic law and international installation criteria, and to calculated number of lifts and refuge to use the elevator using by the ELVAC+ and PathFinder evacuation program.
Keywords
Elevator; Evacuation; High-Rise Buildings;
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