Monitoring human body motions during earthquakes

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

G. P. Cimellaro University of California
Marco Domaneschi Politecnico di Torino
R. Boroschek Universidad de Chile
A. Cardoni Politecnico di Torino
O. Kammouh Politecnico di Torino
D. Galdo Politecnico di Torino
C. Apostoliti Politecnico di Torino
D. Cares Universidad de Chile
S. Mahin University of California
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2018

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English

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Abstract

This work aims at establishing laboratory requirements and testing conditions in order to understand the physical and emotional stability of people during a ground shaking. Several individuals with different human characteristics (gender, age, height, etc.) are considered in the test. Two different laboratory setups are presented. A position device (Kinect) and video targetless tracking algorithm has been used to collect the human body position during the shaking. A two and a three dimensional shaking tables are used to generate artificial earthquakes with different frequency bands. In addition, a well detailed virtual reality setting is applied to the testing site in order to illustrate the real environment. During the experiment, a special attention has been given to the factor of “surprise”, which is necessary to ensure a natural reaction of the individuals. The result of the experiment proved common behaviors among the individual samples during the shaking. This work is considered a first step towards a large test campaign, which is necessary to obtain comprehensive statistics on this topic.