simulation of evacuation behavior during a disaster:study case: mosque of azarbaijan university of tarbiat moallem

safety is a primary consideration in any building. There are many risk factors which can cause casualties such as earthquake fire flood terrorism , etc. one of the important considerations in an emergency situation is evacuation of people this is of great importance when a large number of people are or gathered togethe in a confined space such as mosques subway stations shopping malls etc. to predict the evacuation of a place the best way is to simulate evacuation behavior in this paper as a study case, we simulate the evacuation behavior of the mosque of Azarbaijan university of tarbiat moallem by using distinct element method DEM.

Keywords:

evacuation behavior , evacuation simulation , emergency evacuation , distinct element method