Fire spread and flame length in large-scale tunnel fires

Fire Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 283-302

  Lönnermark, Anders ^a   Ingason, Haukur ^a  

^a SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fire spread; Flame length; Gas temperature measurements; HGV; Large scale experiments; Tunnel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; LIGHT TRAILERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

FIRE SPREAD; GAS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE (HGV) TRAILER; LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS;

FIRES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FIRES; LIGHT TRAILERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

EID: 33748689012     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-006-7508-7     Document Type: Article

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