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Study on Fire Smoke Distribution and Safety Evacuation of Subway Station Based on BIM

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
A subway station is a confined space, so it is very important to evacuate people safely in case of a fire. It is necessary to study and analyze the smoke distribution and evacuation ability of different station layout schemes when fire occurs.
Nian Zhang   +4 more
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Research on multi-objective hierarchical site selection coverage of fire station. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
The fire station location has essential theoretical and practical values, not only in terms of maintaining the safety of life and property, but also enriching the optimization theory of site selection problems. To study the multi-objective siting problem
Junjie He   +3 more
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An Explorative Methodology to Assess the Risk of Fire and Human Fatalities in a Subway Station Using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)

open access: yesFire, 2022
Subway transportation is one of the most prevalent urban transportation methods globally. Millions of people around the globe use this medium as their mode of transportation daily. However, subway stations may be highly prone to fire, smoke, or explosion
Zaman Sajid   +5 more
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Research on Chinese Fire Station Optimal Location Model Based on Fire Risk Statistics: Case Study in Shanghai

open access: yesApplied Sciences
With the rapid development of urbanization in China, the gap between urban and rural areas is decreasing. The traditional approach of constructing fire stations based on urban built-up areas is no longer suitable for the needs of modern fire rescue ...
Qize He   +4 more
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The Cost of Maintaining a Fire Station Transferred to the Volunteer Fire Department by the Local Municipality on a Loan Basis [PDF]

open access: yesSafety & Fire Technology, 2022
Aim: The aim of the article is to answer the question whether the municipality or the volunteer fire department bears the normal maintenance costs of the property transferred by the municipality to the volunteer fire department through a lending ...
Dariusz Piotr Kała
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TreeMap, a tree-level model of conterminous US forests circa 2014 produced by imputation of FIA plot data

open access: yesScientific Data, 2021
Measurement(s) forested area Technology Type(s) machine learning Factor Type(s) biophysical variables • geographic location • forest type • forest height • forest percent cover Sample Characteristic - Environment vegetation layer Sample Characteristic ...
Karin L. Riley   +3 more
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Effects of ownership patterns on cross-boundary wildfires

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Understanding ownership effects on large wildfires is a precursor to the development of risk governance strategies that better protect people and property and restore fire-adapted ecosystems. We analyzed wildfire events in the Pacific Northwest from 1984
Ana M. G. Barros   +3 more
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A Classification of US Wildland Firefighter Entrapments Based on Coincident Fuels, Weather, and Topography

open access: yesFire, 2019
Previous attempts to identify the environmental factors associated with firefighter entrapments in the United States have suggested that there are several common denominators.
Wesley G. Page   +3 more
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Research on the early warning method of transformer fire fault in ocean booster station based on fault tree model [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
As the heart of the sea booster station, the transformer has an extremely important position. When the transformer has various faults, it is very easy to cause a fire accident, so the safe operation of the transformer is very important.
Zhang Fuqiang   +5 more
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Downscaling surface wind predictions from numerical weather prediction models in complex terrain with WindNinja [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2016
Wind predictions in complex terrain are important for a number of applications. Dynamic downscaling of numerical weather prediction (NWP) model winds with a high-resolution wind model is one way to obtain a wind forecast that accounts for local ...
N. S. Wagenbrenner   +4 more
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