Escape Dynamics in Office Buildings: Using Molecular Dynamics to Quantify the Impact of Certain Aspects of Human Behavior During Emergency Evacuation
Authored by Constantinos I Siettos, Stamatina Th Rassia
Date Published: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-009-9209-3
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United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
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Abstract
Emergency evacuation of office buildings, in the event of a
life-threatening situation such as a fire incident, is a function of
various factors ranging from architectural to socio-behavioral ones. We
show how individual-based modeling approaches such as molecular dynamics
can be coupled with behavioral responses in panic situations, in order
to quantify in a systematic way the impact of human familiarity to the
space, during emergency evacuation. The ultimate goal is to identify
certain crucial design features that can help in engineering better
evacuation plans.
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Pedestrian dynamics
Simulation-model
Cellular-automaton model
Waves