Study of historical evacuation drill data combining regression analysis and dimensionless numbers.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
27
09
2019
accepted:
03
04
2020
entrez:
2
5
2020
pubmed:
2
5
2020
medline:
4
8
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The time needed to evacuate a building depends on many factors. Some are related to people's behavior, while others are related to the physical characteristics of the building. This paper analyzes the historical data of 47 evacuation drills in 15 different university buildings, both academic and residential, involving more than 19 000 persons. We propose the study of the data presented using a dimensionless analysis and statistical regression in order to give a prediction of the ratio between exit time and the number of people evacuated. The results obtained show that this approach could be a useful tool for comparing buildings of this type, and that it represents a promising research topic which can also be extended to other types of buildings.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32357168
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232203
pii: PONE-D-19-25000
pmc: PMC7194357
doi:
Types de publication
Comparative Study
Evaluation Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0232203Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Références
Science. 1974 Sep 27;185(4157):1124-31
pubmed: 17835457