| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L69732/01 |
| Title: |
THE EFFECT OF LONGITUDINAL VENTILATION ON FIRE SIZE IN A TUNNEL |
| Principal Investigator: |
Beard, Dr AN |
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| Department: |
Sch of the Built Environment |
| Organisation: |
Heriot-Watt University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1998 |
Ends: |
31 March 2000 |
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74,811
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| Building Ops & Management |
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The project will apply the concepts of Bayesian statistics in order to estimate the effect of a forced longitudinal ventilation on fire size in a tunnel. While, overall, there is a paucity of empirical data there is some experimental information available for different ventilation velocities, different types of tunnel and different types of fire.The intention is to find out what empirical work has been done and what data are obtainable. Contact with persons knowledgable in the field would be made. As much relevant information as possible would be gathered.Fire expertise would be harnessed in order to arrive at prior estimates of multiplicative factors corresponding to the effect of longitudinal ventilation on fire size; for specific cases. Empirical data would then be incorporated to arrive at posterior estimates.Furthering of contacts with government departments, tunnel operators, regulatory bodies, fire brigades will be strenuously pursued in order to try to ensure up-take of results.
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http://www.hw.ac.uk |