Experimental and simulation study on evacuation of ship personnel under fire conditions

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  • (Marine Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China)

Online published: 2025-03-14

Abstract

To address the difficulty in quantifying the impact of ship fires and motion on personnel evacuation,based on platform and real ship experiments of the influence of smoke layer thickness and ship shaking on personnel evacuation,  combined with Anylogic simulation software, a personnel evacuation model considering fire products and shaking effects in ship fire scenarios was constructed. Experimental results show that the platform-based evacuation speed experiments established a relationship between factors like smoke layer thickness and ship shaking conditions and their effects on evacuation speed, with the coupled influence coefficient being the product of their individual coefficients. The three sets of personnel evacuation experiments conducted on the training ship under different smoke layer thicknesses yielded evacuation completion times of 82 s, 78 s, and 85 s, respectively. Compared with the experimental results, the numerical simulations for the corresponding conditions show average error rates of 7.6%, 7.2%, and 7.1%. Numerical simulations show that in a fire scenario without considering fire products, 47 injuries and 6 fatalities might occur, whereas incorporating fire products increased evacuation time by 32.3 s but resulted in zero casualties. When considering roll and pitch motions during a fire, the evacuation times differed by 10.5 s and 33.2 s, respectively, compared to scenarios only accounting for fire products, indicating that pitch motion has a more significant impact on evacuation. This research provides theoretical guidance for personnel evacuation and route selection under ship fire conditions.

Cite this article

PAN Dong, ZHANG Bin, ZHANG Gaobin, TONG Jiapeng . Experimental and simulation study on evacuation of ship personnel under fire conditions[J]. Journal of Dalian Maritime University, 2025 , 51(3) : 31 -43 . DOI: 10.16411/j.cnki.issn1006-7736.2025.03.004

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