Gas temperatures in heavy goods vehicle fires in tunnels

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 506-527

  Lönnermark, Anders ^a   Ingason, Haukur ^a  

^a SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fire; Large scale Experiments; Semi trailer; Temperature; Tunnel; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; GASES; PLASTICS; TEMPERATURE; TUNNELS; VEHICLES; VENTILATION;

GAS TEMPERATURE; LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LONGITUDINAL VENTILATION; SEMI-TRAILER;

FIRES;

EID: 22644443440     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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