- Author
- Carvel, R. O. | Beard, A. N. | Jowitt, P. W.
- Title
- Fire Spread Between Vehicles in Tunnels: Effects of Tunnel Size, Longitudinal Ventilation and Vehicle Spacing.
- Coporate
- Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
- Journal
- Fire Technology, Vol. 41, No. 4 (4th Quarter), 271-304, October 2005
- Keywords
- tunnels | fire spread | ventilation | spacing | fire behavior | fire data | flame impongement | fire statistics | autoignition | fuels | explosions | methodology | heat release rate | equations | pool fires | automobiles | motor vehicles | sensitivity
- Identifiers
- Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV); longitudinal ventilation; fatal vehicle fires in road tunnels (1978-2004); FIRE-SPRINT model; single lane and two lane tunnels; estimates of likelihood (at 2 ms-1) based on test 6 of the HSL test series; posterior probabilities of impingement for a single-lane tunnel; posterior probabilities of impingement for a two-lane tunnel; car and small pool fires; van and medium pool fires