Fire Safety in Museums: Simulation of Fire Scenarios for Development of Control Evacuation Schemes from the Winter Palace of the Hermitage

Autor: Ekaterina Kirik, Aleksey Bogdanov, Olga Sushkova, Marina Gravit, Daria Shabunina, Artem Rozov, Tatyana Vitova, Yuriy Lazarev
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Buildings, Vol 12, Iss 10, p 1546 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-5309
DOI: 10.3390/buildings12101546
Popis: The manuscript is focused on the problems of evacuation in case of fire from the buildings of museums as places with a mass presence of people. Features specific to museums and how they affect safe evacuation conditions are discussed. Most attention is paid to evacuation management, since the vast majority of museum visitors are not familiar with the layout of the building. In this case, the actions of staff in evacuation management are decisive. The paper considers the development of evacuation schemes, taking into account the spread of fire hazards in the building and the development of instructions on their basis for the staff. Using the example of the Winter Palace of the State Hermitage Museum, the solution of the marked tasks with the use of computer simulation of evacuation during a fire is given. The analysis of the simulation results showed the vulnerabilities of the museum. In this work, the evacuation schemes for the scenarios are considered. The maximum number of visitors at a single time in the Winter Palace has been set at 4000. The principles of making evacuation schemes are formulated, including taking into account the peculiarities of space-planning solutions inherent in museums, such as enfilades and the connections of rooms.
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