- Author
- Cheong, M. K. | Spearpoint, M. J. | Fleischmann, C. M.
- Title
- Design Fires for Vehicles in Road Tunnels.
- Coporate
- Land Transport Authority of Singapore, Singapore 219428 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Book or Conf
- Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 7th International Conference. Sky is the Limit. Proceedings and Case Studies. April 16-18, 2008, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD, Auckland, New Zealand, 229-240 p., 2008
- Keywords
- performance based codes | fire safety | safety engineering | regulations | motor vehicles | tunnels | highways | design fires | experiments | heat release rate | ventilation | geometry | fuel load | fir risk | risk analysis | motor vehicle fires | classification | fire spread | fault trees | computational fluid dynamics | simulation | ignition | fuel spills | smoke control
- Identifiers
- Subway Environmental Simulation (SES); Road Tunnel Ventilation (RTV); TUNVEN; heat release rate information from various guidelines; Fire Risk = Probability x Consequence; light goods vehicles (LGV); heavy goods vehicles (HGV); very heavy goods vehicles (VHGV); heat release rate from various fire experiments (u - air velocity in the tunnel, m/s); example of heat release rate curves for vehicle fires involving multiple collisions; fault tree logic diagram for fire risk in tunnel; summary of potential fire risk (urban tunnel in Singapore); examples of tunnel ventilation fan operating scenarios