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Simulări de evacuare ale persoanelor dintr-un cămin cultural în contextul pandemiei SARS-COV-2
Simulations of evacuation of people from a cultural home in the context of the SARS-VOC-2 pandemic

Author(s): Ion-Cătălin RĂDUICĂ, Ion Anghel, Adrian Simion, Horaţiu Gabriel DRAGNE
Subject(s): Architecture
Published by: INCD URBAN-INCERC
Keywords: fire safety; building evacuation; simulation; Pathfinder;
Summary/Abstract: The management of fire emergency evacuation can be improved by using performance anaysis, based on specific software simulation tools, which lately can give good results, when compared to real evacuations. The program used in this paper is called Pathfinder; it was used to create/ model the geometry of a cultural building and then simulate the evacuation of users from this building. Due to the appearance and spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, a set of rules and safety measures have been adopted to prevent and fight its spread. One of these new rules is represented by social distancing. Thus, the issue of evacuation of persons in an enclosure, while respecting the social distance, was approached. Tho different type of scenarios were studied: evacuation with and without social distancing and a comparison was made in the conclusions part of the paper.

  • Page Range: 43-48
  • Page Count: 6
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Language: Romanian