Overview of research on fire safety in underground road and railway tunnels

YZ Li, H Ingason - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A state-of-the-art research progress and prospect of liquid fuel spill fires

J Liu, D Li, Z Wang, X Chai - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
As the oil is leaked continuously and ignited during its production, transportation, storage,
and use, a spill fire with a dynamically changing burning area is naturally formed, which is a …

Can heavy rainfall affect the burning and smoke spreading characteristics of fire in tunnels?

C Fan, D Luan, R Bu, Z Sheng, F Wang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme rainfall events are increasingly common under the current trend of global warming.
This work investigates how a heavy rainfall on one exit affects the fire burning and the …

Experimental study on flame merging behaviors from two pool fires along the longitudinal centerline of model tunnel with natural ventilation

J Ji, H Wan, Z Gao, Y Fu, J Sun, Y Zhang, K Li… - Combustion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
A set of experiments was conducted in a model tunnel to study the interaction behaviors of
two pool fires. Square heptane pool fires with side lengths of 10 cm, 13 cm and 16 cm were …

Full-scale experimental study on water mist fire suppression in a railway tunnel rescue station: Temperature distribution characteristics

C Fan, R Bu, X Xie, Y Zhou - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2021 - Elsevier
Rescue stations are essential for emergency evacuation in super-long railway tunnels.
However, the deficiency of related studies aiming at improving the fire suppression …

Experimental study on temperature profile in a branched tunnel fire under natural ventilation considering different fire locations

P Lei, C Chen, Y Zhang, T Xu, H Sun - International Journal of Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reduced scale experiments in a branched tunnel were carried out to study the variation of
the maximum gas excess temperature beneath the ceiling and temperature profile under …

Experimental study on multiple fire hazards in a naturally ventilated tunnel: Assessment of the flame interaction and extension of two unequal fires

H Wan, Y Xiao, S Wei, Y Zhang, Y Oka - International Journal of Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The catastrophic tunnel fire accidents are usually accompanied with multiple fires burning.
This work experimentally studied the temperature-determined flame extension below the …

Spread and burning characteristics of continuous spill fires in a tunnel

H Li, H Liu, J Liu, J Ge, F Tang - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Changing burning area of spill fire may cause chain effects and expand consequences in
tunnels, which poses a greater challenge to personnel escape and rescue. Research on …

Scale effect of mass loss rates for pool fires in an open environment and in tunnels with wind

Y Yao, YZ Li, H Ingason, X Cheng - Fire safety journal, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the influence of wind on mass loss rate per unit area (MLRPUA) of
fuel-controlled pool fires both in an open environment and inside tunnels and the scale …

Effects of transverse fire locations on flame length and temperature distribution in a bifurcated tunnel fire

Z Li, Y Gao, X Li, P Mao, Y Zhang, K Jin, T Li… - … and Underground Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted in a 1: 10 reduced scale bifurcated
tunnel to investigate transverse flame length and temperature field distribution under the …