Evacuation Simulation and Fire-Risk Assessment on Underground Space of Guangzhou International Financial City

Abstract

To explore the evacuation situation of the underground space in the Starting Area of Guangzhou International Financial City under fire, personal evacuation was simulated with Pathfinder in three zones. Then, the visual animation and the human flow rate diagram were obtained and analyzed. A fire-risk assessment model based on a combined weighting and the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is proposed to assess the fire risk of three zones. First, six second-level indices were determined from three aspects: regional safety evacuation, regional fire prevention, and regional fire extinguishment. The value of regional safety evacuation was determined by the results of the evacuation simulation. Second, the subjective and objective weights of the second-level indices were determined based on the analytic hierarchy process and entropy weight method, respectively, and a combined weighting method was adopted to reflect the subjective and objective weights. Next, TOPSIS was used to calculate the relative closeness between each scheme and the ideal scheme. The relative closeness is an evaluation index used to determine the fire-risk level of three zones. It was found that the fire-risk level of Zone Ⅰ is high, requiring large-scale rectification. The fire-risk level of Zone Ⅱ is low, and the fire toughness is strong. The fire-risk level of Zone Ⅲ is medium and needs local rectification.