The Study on the Effects of the Counter-Flow on the Evacuation of People from Tall Buildings

Piotr Tofilo (), Marcin Cisek () and Krzysztof Lacki
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Piotr Tofilo: The Main School of Fire Service
Marcin Cisek: The Main School of Fire Service
Krzysztof Lacki: The Main School of Fire Service

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012, 2014, pp 509-520 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The counterflow condition on the escape stairs is a situation that may occur during the evacuation from buildings when the downward flow of evacuating occupants passes the upward flow of firefighters heading to the fire floor. The aim of this work is to study the effects of counterflow in connection with the requirements of fire regulations. The second aim is to provide data for numerical modeling and calculations. A series of experiments was conducted on a staircase with and without a simultaneous counter flow of ascending firemen. The experimental results are compared to simulations performed with current popular evacuation packages: Building EXODUS, Pathfinder, STEPS.

Keywords: Modeling; Experiments; Egress; Counter-flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_42

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