Effect of vehicles’ blockage on heat release rate in case of tunnel fire

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Road and railways tunnels are constructed for decreasing the transportation time inside city or intercity. The fire safety systems are mounted for the safe use of tunnels. Therefore, it is important to accurately predict the fire-induced air velocity, temperature and smoke concentrations in tunnel fires in order to design efficient fire protection systems. To this end, scaled tunnel models are used and experiments are carried to understand the phenomena on these tunnel models. In addition, the studies for investigating the tunnel fire phenomena and their methods of modeling techniques for fire experiments are mentioned. In the literature, there is no sufficient information about vehicles’ blockage effect on heat release rate and temperature distribution inside tunnel with different ventilation velocities. As a result, in order to research this subject, the scaled model tunnel is constructed in Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. Based on the Froude number scaling, wood sticks with different configuration inside the model tunnel are burned in a controlled environment. The heat release rate measurement, sampling of gases after combustion, mass loss rate of burning models and temperature distribution along the tunnels with different longitudinal ventilation velocities are measured to investigate the effect of different cross-sectional areas of the burning substances. Furthermore, the model vehicles having a square base area are built according to wood crib theory. The results are investigated with statistical techniques called “Analysis of Variance” and general results have been tried to be reached. It is determined that the variation of air velocity inside tunnel is not so effective, but the model vehicle’s cross sectional area is directly proportional to heat release rate.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19345

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S. Kayılı, “Effect of vehicles’ blockage on heat release rate in case of tunnel fire,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2009.