Study on Fire Protection Design of Large Shopping Centers

DOI

10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.218How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Large shopping centers; fire scenes; fire protection; evacuation

Abstract

Fires occurring in comparatively closed places like large shopping centers where evacuation is quite inconvenient make great loss, including casualties and destroys of materials. It not only makes people fall into panic, influencing their life, but results in a great economic loss. In the past few years, lots of scholars had done some researches on fire protection. Most of them analyzed the characteristics of fires occurred in large shopping centers, did an assessment, and gave some suggestions on fire protection and evacuation. Similarly, this dissertation aims at reducing casualties in fires and protecting social stabilization through the study on fire protection assessment. This paper intends to analyze the characteristics of fires in large shopping centers, make fire scenes, find appropriate and safe exit to make a good plan for personnel evacuation. Characteristics of fires in large shopping centers will be introduced in the first part in the main body. The most important part lies in finding safe exit so as to get a better evacuation. The conclusion is that large shopping centers where are often crowded, need to be paid more attention to fire protection. Through the fire protection, losses caused by fires occurred in the shopping centers can be reduced and it helps a lot in boosting prominently the shopping centers' economic and social effect.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Qian Zhang
PY  - 2016/06
DA  - 2016/06
TI  - Study on Fire Protection Design of Large Shopping Centers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials, Environment, Biotechnology and Computer
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1049
EP  - 1052
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/mmebc-16.2016.218
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