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Systemic Analysis Method Applied in Fire Safety

A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255). This special issue belongs to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 7125

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Dr. Shaojun Zhu

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Department of Structural Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Interests: smart firefighting; smart structural design
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Prof. Dr. Chao Zhang

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School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Interests: steel structures in fire; performance of structures in natural fire; integrated fire-structure simulation; reliability of fire protection for structures; high temperature creep; hybrid fire testing; fiber optical sensing in fire, etc.
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As fire accidents may be regarded as isolated incidents issued within a system, the interaction between multiple factors during the development of the fire will finally result in a ‘systemic’ concept of fire loss. Therefore, analyzing fire safety from a systemic perspective is necessary, so that the overall fire risk and fire loss can be controlled or limited.

This Special Issue aims to highlight original findings regarding systemic analysis methods in fire safety engineering. The systems considered by the authors may include building structures, oil or gas plants, offshore platforms, etc. Research findings serving as the basis of systemic fire safety analysis, e.g., basic theories or methods of fire-structural analysis, principles of fire management system development, application case studies, etc., are also welcome.

In this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews, and case studies are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Fire-structural analysis theories and methods;
  • Systemic fire safety management systems;
  • Systemic fire risk analysis systems and methods;
  • Application examples of systemic fire safety analysis.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Shaojun Zhu
Prof. Dr. Chao Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • systemic methods
  • fire safety management
  • fire risk analysis
  • fire-structural analysis
  • interdisciplinary

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MCDM-Based Wildfire Risk Assessment: A Case Study on the State of Arizona
by Mohammad Pishahang, Stefan Jovcic, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani, Vladimir Simic and Ömer Faruk Görçün
Fire 2023, 6(12), 449; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6120449 - 24 Nov 2023
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The increasing frequency of wildfires has posed significant challenges to communities worldwide. The effectiveness of all aspects of disaster management depends on a credible estimation of the prevailing risk. Risk, the product of a hazard’s likelihood and its potential consequences, encompasses the probability [...] Read more.
The increasing frequency of wildfires has posed significant challenges to communities worldwide. The effectiveness of all aspects of disaster management depends on a credible estimation of the prevailing risk. Risk, the product of a hazard’s likelihood and its potential consequences, encompasses the probability of hazard occurrence, the exposure of assets to these hazards, existing vulnerabilities that amplify the consequences, and the capacity to manage, mitigate, and recover from their consequences. This paper employs the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework, which produces reliable results and allows for the customization of the relative importance of factors based on expert opinions. Utilizing the AROMAN algorithm, the study ranks counties in the state of Arizona according to their wildfire risk, drawing upon 25 factors categorized into expected annual loss, community resilience, and social vulnerability. A sensitivity analysis demonstrates the stability of the results when model parameters are altered, reinforcing the robustness of this approach in disaster risk assessment. While the paper primarily focuses on enhancing the safety of human communities in the context of wildfires, it highlights the versatility of the methodology, which can be applied to other natural hazards and accommodate more subjective risk and safety assessments. Full article
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Developing the Urban Fire Safety Co-Management System in China Based on Public Participation
by Jida Liu, Ruining Ma, Yuwei Song and Changqi Dong
Fire 2023, 6(10), 400; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6100400 - 18 Oct 2023
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The new situations, problems, and challenges facing urban fire safety work are gradually increasing in China, so innovating urban fire safety governance modes is an urgent task. In the fire management practice of the Chinese government, the establishment of an urban fire safety [...] Read more.
The new situations, problems, and challenges facing urban fire safety work are gradually increasing in China, so innovating urban fire safety governance modes is an urgent task. In the fire management practice of the Chinese government, the establishment of an urban fire safety co-management system is an important measure for aggregating fire safety management resources and improving the level of urban fire safety prevention, as well as control. In order to reveal and clarify the interacting relationships and influencing mechanisms among multiple subjects in an urban fire safety co-management system, we constructed an urban fire safety co-management game model comprising fire supervision departments, production management units, and the public based on evolutionary game theory. The stability of the urban fire safety co-management game system is explored from the perspective of game subjects. The influencing factors of strategy selection between game subjects in the game system were investigated using numerical simulation analysis. The research results show that elevating the informatization level of co-management, the risk perception level of the public, and the disclosure level of fire safety information are conducive to stimulating the public’s positivity to participate in co-management. Strengthening the accountability of the superior government is conducive to ensuring the supervision level of fire supervision departments. The above measures have positive value for optimizing China’s urban fire safety co-management systems, establishing urban fire safety management synergy, and ensuring the stability of social fire safety situations. Full article
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Performance-Based Fire-Protection Design of Public Amenities with Restrained Personnel Activities
by Xuejun Jia, Yongsheng Wang, Jingtao Chen, Ziqiang Fang, Kang Xia and He Wang
Fire 2023, 6(7), 256; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6070256 - 29 Jun 2023
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In this paper, performance-based fire-protection design is used for the fire-safety design of public amenities with restrained personnel activities. In these places, tourists’ activities are constrained in a limited space such as cockpit moving along the track. Since it is another typical scenario [...] Read more.
In this paper, performance-based fire-protection design is used for the fire-safety design of public amenities with restrained personnel activities. In these places, tourists’ activities are constrained in a limited space such as cockpit moving along the track. Since it is another typical scenario of fire-protection problem that cannot fully comply with the current mandatory codes and regulations, simulation analysis is used in order to ensure that such fire scenario could achieve performance objectives as expected. Firstly, corresponding fire-protection performance objectives, strategies and simplified evaluation criteria are brought forward in this paper. Then, through simulating the smoke flow in the fire using the computational fluid dynamics software FDS, the effectiveness of the smoke control strategy is verified. Meanwhile, the escaping environments of these fire scenes are analyzed. Further, the personnel evacuation simulation software (Pathfinder) is resorted to simulate the personnel emergency evacuation. The efficiency and the total time that consumed are obtained. Finally, by analyzing the similarities and differences of evacuation under different fire scenes, the fire and smoke spread in the riding area can be effectively controlled, and a safe evacuation environment can be provided for the evacuation of tourists. Full article
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