Abstract

In this paper the quantitative risk analysis procedure has been used to face two specific aspects of the fire safety design in road and rail tunnel: • the smoke control system effectiveness; • the spalling effect and structural reliability of the liners. The first example deals with the risk comparative assessment of two alternative systems for smoke control in a road tunnel. The societal risk indicator has been used to select the more effective system. The second one aims to consider a reliability based approach for structural design of the tunnel liners in order to identify the design fire load preventing from the spalling effect at a given probability level.

Details

Title
Risk Analysis And Reliability Based Design In Tunnel Fire Safety
Author
Guarascio, M; Lombardi, M; Rossi, G; Sciarra, G
Pages
575-584
Publication year
2009
Publication date
2009
Publisher
W I T Press
ISSN
1746-4498
e-ISSN
1743-3509
Source type
Other Source
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2263487732
Copyright
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