Motion induced passenger dislocations in life raft and life boat configurations
conference paper
Within the European project SafeCrafts, dealing with the safe abandoning of ships, the dislocation of passengers aboard life boats and rafts has been considered to be a risk regarding passenger survival at sea. To get an idea about the risks and the affecting factors involved, we studied the effects of motion on tipping and sliding of passengers in a laboratory experiment using life boat and life raft seating configurations mounted on top of a motion platform. A major finding of this experiment was that the acceleration along the seating surface seems to be a good predictor for dislocations of passengers taking into account angular motion, tilt, and translation as well as subject position with respect to the rotation axes. A second major finding was that the more supporting structures / neighbours were present, the less dislocations were observed.
TNO Identifier
409735
Source title
HPAS 2010 International Conference On Human Performance at Sea 16-18 June 2010, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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