31th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences

10 - Safety and Security

STUDY ON AIRCRAFT EVACUATION MODELING AND MODEL PARAMETERS BASED ON SOCIAL FORCE

K. Chen¹, Y. Wu¹, T. Zou¹; ¹Laboratory of Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Technology, CAUC, China

Emergency evacuation is an important factor to ensure passengers’ safety after an aircraft accident. In order to predict passengers’ emergency behavior in aircraft cabin, the simulation model applicable to aircraft emergency evacuation was established. In this paper, the force balance phenomenon which means the passenger keeps still in a certain position occurred when simulating aircraft emergency evacuation because of the limitation of original social force theory. A factor was taken into account to modify the psychological repulsion received from the surrounding passengers or physical boundary in the original social force model. Simulation results show that the modified social force model has a good performance on predicting the emergency evacuation behavior of passengers in aircraft cabin.


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