Investigation of the performance of emergency ventilation strategies in the event of fires in a road tunnel - a case study

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1042391507080812
Author	Search for: Kashef, A.¹; Search for: Bénichou, N.¹
Affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
Format	Text, Article
Subject	Tunnels
Abstract	Numerical and experimental studies were used to assess the effectiveness of in-place emergency ventilation strategies for controlling smoke spread in the event of a fire in the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine road tunnel in Montreal, Quebec. The numerical study was conducted using the Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) model and experimental study was used to establish the initial and boundary conditions for the model. A heat source of 20 MW was used for the simulations. Two fires scenarios, deemed to cover the two main situations probable to occur in the tunnel, were simulated. The paper includes recommended improvements to the tunnel ventilation strategy.
Publication date	2008-08-01
In	Journal of Fire Protection Engineering 18, no. 3 (1 August 2008): 165–198.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
NRC number	NRCC 50588 NRC-IRC-19821
NPARC number	20378118
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