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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2016.30.2.075

Experimental Study on the Fire Behavior in Double Deck Tunnel  

Park, Jin-Ouk (Fire Research Division, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Yoo, Yong-Ho (Fire Research Division, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Kim, Hwi-Seung (Fire Research Division, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Park, Byoung-Jik (Fire Research Division, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.30, no.2, 2016 , pp. 75-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the wake of expanding and overpopulating urban areas, traffic congestion has been worsening increasingly, causing huge economic losses. In a bid to effectively use the space of metropolitan areas, the construction and operation of a double deck tunnel has been on the rise. On the other hand, a lower height of a double deck tunnel is expected to generate more smoke and soot in a fire than other usual tunnels. Therefore, it is undesirable to apply the standard for fire intensity or smoke generation, which were designed for existing road tunnels. A part of an effort to propose a design fire curve that is useful for double deck tunnel, is intended to obtain and analyze the fire characteristics in a double deck tunnel through a real scale fire test. The test was conducted according to the fire scenario with one passenger car and two passenger cars; the monitored fire intensity was a maximum of 2.4 MW and 3.5 MW, respectively.
Keywords
Double deck tunnel; Heat release rate; Real scale fire test;
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