- Author
- Ingason, H.
- Title
- Heat Release Rate Measurements in Tunnel Fires.
- Coporate
- Swedish National Testing Institute, Boras, Sweden
- Book or Conf
- Fires in Tunnels International Conference. Proceedings. October 10-11, 1994, Boras, Sweden, SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute, Boras,, Ivarson, E., Editor, 86-103 pp, 1994 AND University of Dundee and Independent Technical Conferences Ltd. Safety in Road and Rail Tunnels. International Conference, 2nd (Second). Proceedings. April 3-6, 1995, Granada, Spain, Vardy, A. E., Editor, 261-268 pp, 1995, ['1995', '1994']
- Keywords
- tunnels | safety | heat release rate | calorimetry | oxygen consumption | fire tests | automobiles | cribs | mass flow | flow rate | temperature distribution | experiments | enthalpy
- Identifiers
- tunnel used for the experiments was a 2.3 km long abandoned copper-mine; comparison of theoretical heat content (MJ) and the integrated HRR (MJ) for the measured objects; temperature distribution 3 minutes after the fire started; temperature distribution 15 minutes after the fire started; temperature distribution after the fire went out; longitudinal speeds after the fire went out; temperature distribution 45 minutes after the fire started; longitudinal speeds 45 minutes after the fire started