STUDY ON QUANTIFICATION OF HUMAN SENSES TO SEISMIC VIBRATION BY SUBJECT EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose the evaluation curve of human senses to seismic vibration based on subject experiments. In this study, following results are obtained. 1) More than 50% of people feel in danger and attempt to take refuge action in SI (instrumental seismic intensity)=5.2 and feel anxious in SI=5.6. 2) When determining an evaluation curve by using probability distribution functions, using acceleration and SI are most suitable to the experiment results. Therefore, two kinds of the evaluation curves which use acceleration and SI are proposed.