Fires in tunnels

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1748, 1998, Pages 2873-2906

  Grant, G B ^a,c   Jagger, S F ^b   Lea, C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Grant Fire Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical velocity; Fire; Fire modelling; Tunnel; Tunnel geometry experiments; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042954546     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0302     Document Type: Article

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