An effective evacuation of buildings is critical to minimize casualties due to natural or anthropogenic hazards. Building evacuation models help in preparing for future events and shed light on possible shortcomings of ...

Major earthquakes may require people to evacuate immediately from buildings as recently observed in the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake in Chile. The building may suffer damage, thus affecting the evacuation process. Perhaps ...

Computer based models describing pedestrian behaviour in an emergency evacuation play a vital role in the development of active strategies that minimise the evacuation time when a closed area, with a relatively small number ...

Introduction and purpose of this study: Colegio Ingles is the largest and oldest school in the city of Iquique, the capital of Chile's northern Tarapaca Region. In accordance with the School Evacuation Plan, a drill was ...

Computer based models describing pedestrian behavior in an emergency evacuation play a vital role in the development of active strategies that minimize the evacuation time when a closed area must be evacuated. The reference ...

This paper examines different evacuation strategies for systems where several rooms evacuate through the same means of egress, using microscopic pedestrian simulation. As a case study, a medium-rise office building is ...

In the present work, we studied the room evacuation problem using the social force model introduced by Helbing and coworkers. This model allows to explore different degree of panic. The 'faster is slower' effect induced ...

In the case of near-field tsunami emergencies, evacuation is considered the most important and effective method to save human lives. While significant efforts have been carried out to examine the relationships between urban ...

The need for renewable energy sources, facing the consequences of Climate Change, results in growing investment for solar collectors’ use. Research in this field has accompanied this expansion and evacuated tube solar ...

The need of renewable energy sources due to climate change and thus the search for clean energy sources, justify the growing investment on new types of solar collectors. The research has contributed to this expansion in ...