A Risk-Based Method of Deriving Design Fires for Evacuation Safety in Buildings

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• 作者：Depeng Kong ; Shouxiang Lu ; Ping Ping
• 关键词：Building fire safety design ; Acceptable fire risk ; Event tree ; Reliability index ; Design fire
• 刊名：Fire Technology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：53
• 期：2
• 页码：771-791
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Civil Engineering; Classical Mechanics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Physics, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-8099
• 卷排序：53

文摘

This article presents a risk-based method for building fire safety design. Because the design fire is the most critical aspect of a building fire safety design, this article uses reliability theory to derive design fires from the fire risk acceptance criteria. The fire scenarios are modeled by an event tree, where different fire protection systems are presented as pivotal events. The number of casualties is estimated by the occupant number and the probability that an untenable condition is reached before occupants evacuate to a safe location. Using the probability and consequence of each fire scenario, the expected risk to life is used to integrate the fire risk acceptance criteria into the determination of the target reliability index. A global optimization method is then applied to the reliability index to obtain the design fires for each scenario. A case study was conducted to demonstrate an application of this proposed method.