Fire safety in tunnels

In 2006 the European Parliament requested the author to conduct a study of tunnel safety and make recommendations to be considered with a view to implementation in the European Union. This had been spurred by the large number of serious tunnel fires which have occurred in Europe since 1995 and fire safety was the main concern. Following a ten-month project a report was published and made available on the web-site of the European Parliament in 2008. The full report, containing twenty five recommendations, is available and details are given in Ref. [A.N. Beard, D. Cope, Assessment of the Safety of Tunnels. Commissioned by the European Parliament via the committee on Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA); report IP/A/STOA/FWC/2005-28/SC22/29. Published in February 2008 on the European Parliament web-site at www.europarl.europa.eu]. The recommendations are intended to help to increase tunnel safety in the European Union and, primarily, to help to move towards a common system of tunnel safety decision-making and risk assessment. This article gives an outline of the report and high-lights some aspects of the content. This is not meant to imply that aspects which are not high-lighted here are of lesser importance.     

Fire safety aspects in design

A recent BRE Information Paper 4/87, reproduced here, embodies a paper given by the author at the 1986 Stockholm meeting of CIB W56. It discusses the possible effects of the use of foamed plastic cores which, without careful design, can introduce a life hazard if fire occurs. Likely fire scenarios are discussed in relation to two examples, and a checklist of design guidance is given.     

商业领域的消防安全

<正>商业的迅速发展给现代火灾探测系统的设计带来许多难题。由于建筑规模越来越大,建筑设计不断更新,新的建筑材料和建筑技术层出不穷,建筑布局和楼层日趋复杂,因此,人们对建筑消防系统的要求也越来越具体,所涉及的范围也越来越广。例如,现代零售商店和其他商用建筑中常见的大     

Fire safety in hyperbaric chambers

The effects of pressure upon combustion and equipment performance place severe requirements on fire protection systems that might be suitable for use in manned hyperbaric chambers. Adequate systems do exist, however; and we can look for improvements in these as the use of hyperbaric chambers grows in the years to come. Southwest Research Institute     

干旱半干旱地区消防安全探讨

结合笔者在西北干旱半干旱地区多年的工作经历,从气候特点与消防关系着手,找出干旱半干旱地区引发火灾的原因,并根据火灾特点,提出火灾预防对策。     

Fire safety engineering in timber buildings

The combustibility of timber is one of the main reasons that many building regulations strictly limit the use of timber as a building material. Fire safety is an important contribution to feeling safe, and an important criterion for the choice of building materials. Historically, the combustibility aspect of wood has been a disadvantage for using timber as a construction material. The main precondition for an increased use of timber in buildings is providing adequate fire safety. This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges to reach this goal by implementing Fire Safety Engineering and Performance Based Design principles.     

大型宾馆饭店的消防安全

阐述了大型宾馆饭店的火灾危险性,并结合具体的工作实例进行分析,提出了大型宾馆饭店的防火措施.     

Fire safety objectives for buildings

Rapidly expanding interest in performance-based codes has created increased attention to the objectives of fire safety. One of the more circumspect yet cogent discourses on this subject was presented by Professor David Rasbash, retired Head of the Department of Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. The following is excerpted from a lecture given to The Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors at Morecambe, October 1977, with permission of the author.—The Editor     

Fire testing for human safety

The author proposes that more attention be given to human escape time — the time between alerting and nonescape conditions and the comparison of available escape time to the needed escape time in real life situations.     

地下建筑火灾探秘

列举了大量地下建筑的火灾案例,阐述了地下建筑的火灾特点,提出了如何做好地下火灾的预防工作。     

闲置厂房的消防安全

分析了闲置厂房的消防安全现状,阐述了闲置厂房的消防安全措施与对策.     

实芯板的消防安全

介绍了夹芯板的分类和在建筑业使用的情况 ,分析了夹芯板的火灾危险性 ,提出了消除和减少夹芯板火灾危险和保证消防部门有效、安全扑救火灾的措施     

商场火灾的安全评价

针对商场火灾的特点、成因，利用火灾安全分析的方法对商场火灾防治进行研究，以商场消防安全系统的安全分析为依据，分析了系统中存在的危险和薄弱环节、发生事故的概率和可能的严重程度等，对商场进行正确的消防安全评价。