Shandong Science ›› 2022, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 144-154.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2022.04.018

• Traffic and Transportation • Previous Articles    

Calculation of human evacuation reliability for shield-integrated pipe gallery

TAN Yi-wei1(), LIU Shu-zhuo1, CHEN Jun-sheng2,*()   

  1. 1. School of Civil Engineering and Transportation,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science,School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • Received:2021-06-12 Online:2022-08-20 Published:2022-07-25
  • Contact: CHEN Jun-sheng E-mail:yiweitan2021@163.com;jschen@scut.edu.cn

Abstract:

In view of the limited research on current comprehensive utility tunnel shield safety operations and inconsideration of the uncertainty factors in the shield-integrated pipe gallery operations as well as their specifications, this study aims at safe human evacuation from the gallery during fire hazard for the operations research personnel using the Guangzhou Tianhe smart city comprehensive utility tunnel shield segment as the research object to calculate the probability of safe human evacuation. A 1:1 fire modeling is performed using PyroSim software to determine the available safe evacuation time 。Referring to the probability distribution of personnel's escape behavior after a tunnel disaster, the probability model of escape behavior is optimized while considering the characteristics of the operation and maintenance period of the pipe gallery, and the comparative working conditions are set using the Monte Carlo method. The random sampling simulation of the necessary evacuation time was conducted using Matlab programming, and the safety evacuation reliability was calculated. The results show that in a fire prevention zone, the evacuation reliability is 0.889 for the ordinary personnel and 0.99 for the maintenance personnel, i.e., close to 1. Daily evacuation drills, safety specification manuals, and other control measures can considerably improve the safety of the personnel. These results are expected to provide a reference for the compilation of operation and maintenance specifications of daily support structures for integrated pipe galleries.

Key words: shield tunnel, operation and maintenance research, fire simulation, personnel evacuation, evacuation reliability, reliability calculation, Monte Carlo method, probability simulation

CLC Number: 

  • TU990.3