Evacuation Design and Smoke Control in Fire Safety Management
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pedestrian evacuation; risk assessment; public safety and emergency management
Interests: crowd gathering safety and evacuation guidance; urban safety and risk assessment
Interests: smoke control in complex tunnels; risk and resilience management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the frequency of fire incidents and their devastating consequences, including loss of life and property, there is an urgent need to develop effective evacuation plans and smoke control strategies. Rational evacuation design facilitates swift and orderly evacuation of occupants during a fire, while efficient smoke control mitigates the dangers posed by smoke, improving visibility and air quality in evacuation routes. With the progression of science and technology, how to optimize evacuation design and smoke control strategy by combining new technologies and new methods has become an important topic that needs to be further studied in the field of fire safety management.
In this Special Issue for Fire, the submission of articles related to evacuation design and smoke control is welcomed. This Special Issue aims to improve safety evacuation efficiency in the event of fire by optimizing evacuation design, improving smoke control ability and fire emergency response ability, and promoting technological innovation and application. Moreover, scientific and effective technical support will be provided for fire safety management. In this Special Issue, the scope is to gather original, fundamental, and applied research comprising experimental, theoretical, computational, and case study approaches that contribute to the understanding of evacuation design and smoke control. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Evacuation route planning;
- Evacuation simulation and evaluation;
- Emergency drills and training;
- Smoke diffusion mechanism;
- Smoke control system design and evaluation;
- Smoke control strategy.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Feizhou Huo
Dr. Yaping Ma
Dr. Peng Lei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- evacuation simulation
- route planning
- evacuation design
- smoke diffusion
- smoke control
- fire risk assessment
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