Advancing engineered structures for Canada's aging population

为加拿大老龄化人口推进工程结构

• 批准号: 492457-2015
• 负责人: Gales, JohnAdam
• 金额: $ 1.81万
• 依托单位: Carleton University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=602026
• 关键词: Advancing; engineered; structures; Canada; aging

Modern infrastructure design demands a scientific basis of how people interact with their natural environment. However, populations are aging in North America and we have limited information about how they behave in their surroundings. With that brings many challenges that need to be realized for building safety and hazard mitigation, few of which we currently understood to design our built infrastructure safely. In 2014, the effect of this was seen in Canada with the L'isle Verte care home fire which claimed the lives of 30 seniors and two staff. Our ability to understand and rationally predict the movement and behavior of an aging population is critical to how we can plan fire-safe modern and future infrastructure in Canada. Human movement data from five fire drills for homes for the aged were provided to Carleton University researchers which characterize this behavior in raw qualitative and quantitative form for this research. This data can be used for validating and

现代基础设施设计要求人们如何与自然环境互动的科学基础。然而，北美的人口正在老龄化，我们对他们在周围环境中的行为方式的信息有限。这给建筑安全和减灾带来了许多挑战，我们目前很少了解如何安全地设计我们的建筑基础设施。2014年，加拿大的L'isle Verte养老院发生火灾，造成30名老年人和两名工作人员死亡。我们理解和合理预测老龄化人口的流动和行为的能力对于我们如何规划加拿大消防安全的现代和未来基础设施至关重要。卡尔顿大学的研究人员提供了五次老年人之家消防演习的人类运动数据，这些数据以原始的定性和定量形式描述了这种行为。这些数据可用于验证和