This study proposed a concept and a method for building egress analysis. The works of this research include: develop procedures to analyze the egress system of a plan, propose methods and a program to identify target spaces in evacuation, present a dynamic blocking viewpoint of an egress system, dedicate a way to identify the threatening room of fire origin, and create an occupant evacuation model (ESM), whose functions are: to simulate the occupant evacuation in a building in the static and the dynamic blocking situations, to record the people changes at every compartment during evacuation, and to review the clearing times of different compartments.

Creator

• Shen, Tzu-Sheng

Contributors

• Shield, T. J.
• Salazar, Guillermo F.
• Fitzgerald, Robert W.

Degree

• PhD

Unit

• Civil & Environmental Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-0503103-114955

Keyword

• evacuation simulation
• STELLA
• plan analysis
• target space

Advisor

• Fitzgerald, Robert W.

Committee

• Salazar-Ledezma, Guillermo F.
• Shield, T. J.

Defense date

• 2000-12-18

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-05-03

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright