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Experimental Study on One-Dimensional Movement with Different Motion Postures

  • Qiao Wang
  • , Weiguo Song*
  • , Jun Zhang
  • , Siuming Lo
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

The motion postures of pedestrians influence the evacuation efficiency in fire and smoke filling buildings. In a building fire, the effective method is to lower the height of mouth and noise to avoid the harm to occupant’s health. In this paper, we conduct the one-dimensional pedestrian movement experiment to study the movement characteristics with different motion postures. Firstly, it is observed that the speed of upright walking is the fastest, and the slowest speed is low crawling. However, there is no significant difference in speed between upright walking and walking with a stoop. Through this experiment, the basic speeds of different motion postures can be obtained, which can be used to collect the basic data for evacuation simulation in fire and smoke buildings. These findings can provide insight to evacuation strategy when building fire occurred.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTraffic and Granular Flow 2019
EditorsIker Zuriguel, Angel Garcimartín, Raúl Cruz Hidalgo
PublisherSpringer 
Pages257-264
ISBN (Electronic)9783030559731
ISBN (Print)9783030559724
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event13th Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF 2019) - Pamplona, Spain
Duration: 2 Jul 20195 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Physics
Volume252
ISSN (Print)0930-8989
ISSN (Electronic)1867-4941

Conference

Conference13th Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF 2019)
Abbreviated titleTGF 2019
PlaceSpain
CityPamplona
Period2/07/195/07/19

Bibliographical note

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Research Keywords

  • Different postures
  • Evacuation
  • One-dimensional movement

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