State-of-the-art high-rise building emergency evacuation behavior
Emergency evacuation in case of an emergency is a crucial problem in high-rise buildings, as many occupants are in a limited amount of space. To improve building safety design and evacuation strategies, it is essential to understand how individuals behave during an evacuation in high-rise buildings....
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| Published in: | Physica A 2021-01, Vol.561, p.125168, Article 125168 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Emergency evacuation in case of an emergency is a crucial problem in high-rise buildings, as many occupants are in a limited amount of space. To improve building safety design and evacuation strategies, it is essential to understand how individuals behave during an evacuation in high-rise buildings. This paper surveys the recently available literature on evacuation in high-rise buildings with the following objectives: (1) to review the high-rise building evacuation experiment methods; (2) to review the wayfinding and impact factors in horizontal evacuation; and (3) to review the individual and crowd behaviors in vertical evacuation. The review highlights the application of the virtual reality technology in evacuation experiments and the two-side effect of the group behavior in high-rise buildings. Future research should focus on quantitative pre-evacuation behavior study, the elevator’s assistant function, and the impact of group relations on evacuation. As the height of high-rise buildings continues to increase, individual characteristics, such as mobility issues and fatigue, warrant further study.
•Review the individual and crowd behavior in high-rise building.•Make an integration of experiment methods about evacuation in high-rise building.•Discuss the horizontal evacuation. Mainly from the two following aspects: the wayfinding and impact factors.•Discuss the vertical evacuation. Mainly contains the behavior in stairs, in elevators, on refuge floor, in group and others.•Discuss the challenges of high-rise buildings evacuation. |
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| ISSN: | 0378-4371 1873-2119 |