Fire safety assessment of open wide gangway underground trains in tunnels using coupled fire and evacuation simulation
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 15913
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/fam.2413
- Title of journal
- Fire and Materials
- Article number
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- First page
- 716
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 0308-0501
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper describes a unique process of coupling advanced CFD fire modelling with evacuation modelling to undertake for the first time an analysis of fires on trains in tunnels. It is a rail application of the modelling techniques developed as part of the EU FP7 project AIRCRAFTFIRE (265612) (http://bit.ly/fseg_aircraftfire). The paper explores the negative impact of a popular new concept of train design on survivability in fires (accidental or deliberate) when a train is in a narrow underground tunnel as found in London Underground. The paper has implications for the safe operation of trains in UK and international underground environments.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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