Print Email Facebook Twitter Road Tunnel Fire Safety: Determining the effect of the performance of technological systems for fire detection on fire detection time and on the total evacuation time Title Road Tunnel Fire Safety: Determining the effect of the performance of technological systems for fire detection on fire detection time and on the total evacuation time Author Fragkopoulou, M.F. Contributor Hoogendoorn, S.H. (mentor) Nijsse, R.N. (mentor) Schipper, R.S. (mentor) Hensen, D.H. (mentor) Louwers, S.L. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Programme Building Engineering/Building Technology & Physics Date 2016-03-14 Abstract This MSc thesis treats the challenging subject of road tunnel fire safety. More specifically, the goal of this research study was to investigate the performance of a state-of-the-art fire detection system and determine the effect of the detection time on the evacuation process in case of a fire emergency. As a result, the Linear Heat Detection (LHD) system was modeled using a Computational Fluid Dynamics software, the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). Various simulation scenarios were tested in order to determine the effect of different ventilation configurations, different tunnel geometry and the presence of traffic on the fire detection time. Moreover, the evacuation simulation component of the FDS software was used in order to draw conclusions regarding the evacuation of the pedestrians. Subject fire safetytunnelsfire detectionevacuation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:05252f5a-a3c2-4193-bb21-b4f73ff54352 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 Fragkopoulou, M.F. Files PDF MSc_Thesis_-_Marina_Fragk ... poulou.pdf 14.65 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:05252f5a-a3c2-4193-bb21-b4f73ff54352/datastream/OBJ/view