In the past two decades, the interest in fire safety science of tunnels has significantly
increased, mainly due to the rapidly increasing number of tunnels built and the catastrophic …

Tunnel fire is one of the most severe global fire hazards and causes a significant amount of
economic losses and casualties every year. Over the last 50 years, numerous full-scale and …

In order to study the hazard of the hot smoke which is toxic and in high temperature, a new
heat balance equation is established to study the heat and mass transfer during smoke …

Sealing the tunnel entrance is one of tactic for railway tunnel firefighting. In order to
understand the effect of tunnel entrance sealing ratio on fire behavior, Computational Fluid …

Metro systems have been in use for over 150 years, and new metro lines are still being
constructed, either as new metro systems or as expansions of existing metro networks. In …

Former studies usually used model tunnels with fixed width while in reality the tunnel width
can be different between different tunnels. In the current study, a set of small scale …

This paper studies the maximum gas temperature rises beneath the ceiling in tunnel fires.
The fire scenarios with higher longitudinal ventilation velocities are of key concern. This …

Rescue stations are essential for emergency evacuation in super-long railway tunnels.
However, the deficiency of related studies aiming at improving the fire suppression …

Investigation of natural ventilation using shafts in tunnels has been receiving more
attentions, however, analyses on how shaft dimension and amount influence the natural …

A full-scale experiment was conducted to research the smoke development of a sloped long
and large curved tunnel in the natural ventilated underground space under three different …