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Practice of BIM Digital Twin Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching: A Case Study of the Curriculum Reform of Fire Safety Engineering

Author(s)

Qiongzhen Tang*

Affiliation(s)

Xiangsihu College of Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, Guangxi, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Due to the unique characteristics of the Fire Engineering course, simply teaching students the safety evacuation guidelines to follow during a fire can affect their understanding of the theories and application in engineering practice. By analyzing the necessity of curriculum reform, it is proposed to introduce experimental teaching based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) virtual simulation experiments, fully utilizing the advantages of virtual reality technology, and integrating cutting-edge disciplines and information technology into experimental teaching. This article takes a high-level emergency evacuation simulation as an example to explain the specific steps of implementing simulation experiments in accordance with the teaching requirements of the teaching outline and provides an assessment plan for the experimental results. The experiments conducted on the digital twin BIM model have deepened students' understanding and mastery of the basic principles of safety emergency evacuation and evacuation time theory during computer simulation experiments and improved their comprehensive abilities in digital technology application and innovative thinking.

Keywords

Teaching Methods; BIM; Virtual Simulation; Experimental Teaching; Safety Engineering

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