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Fires in Historic Buildings: Assessment of Evacuation of Persons by Computational Simulation

  • Ivana Righetto MoserEmail author
  • João Carlos Souza
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Abstract

The research aims to assess the performance of historical buildings, regarding the safe evacuation of people, through a computer simulation which uses human behaviour as a variable. The simulations verified the evacuation time and the maximum distance travelled in emergency situations, as well as indicated bottlenecks and building’s critical points.

Keywords

Computer simulation Evacuation in historical buildings 
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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Post-Graduation Programme in Architecture and Urbanism of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior [CAPES].

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaFlorianópolisBrazil

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