Tunnel Safety & Security - istss

Day 1 Wednesday 14 March 2012
08.00 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
09.00 Opening Ceremony
Keynote Session (Chair: Haukur Ingason, SP, Sweden)
09.30 Managing security issues on the public transport systems
of London
Martin Brown, Transport of London, UK
10.00 Mitigation in Tunnel Fires
Ricky Carvel, Edinburgh University, UK
10.30 Coffee break
Active fire protection; Supression systems
(Chair: Jack Mawhinney, Hughes Associates Inc, USA)
11.00 Advantages of Electronically Controlled Sprinklers (ECS)
for fire protection of tunnels
Leonid Tanklevskiy, Gefest Enterprise Group, Russia,
Sergey Kopylov, Mikhail Vasilev , Varvara Zima, Russian
Research Institute for Fire Protection and Alexander Snegirev
, St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia
11.20 Benefit of Sprinkler Systems in Protection of Tunnel
Structure from Fire
Bobby, J. Melvin and Kenneth J. Harris, Parsons
Brinckerhoff, USA
11:40 Water Mist Concept - Effective Choice for Improving
Safety in Road Tunnels
Pasi Vuolle, Marioff Corporation, Finland
12.00 Automatic sprinkler system in tunnel fires
Ying Z. Li, and Haukur Ingason, SP, Sweden
12.20 A study of the interactions between a water suppression
system and a longitudinal ventilation system in a
tunnel
Yoon Ko and George Hadjisophocleous, Carleton University,
Canada
12.40 Lunch and Exhibits
Active fire protection; Detection & Supression
(Chair: Haukur Ingason, SP, Sweden)
14.00 Automated fire detection and mitigation in rail tunnels
designed for freight trains
Frank de Vires, Covalent Infra Technology Solutions BV,
the Netherlands
14.20 Gas analytics for the early detection of fires in road
tunnels
Maximilian Wietek, Christian Berweger, Christian
Lämmle, VSH, Switzerland
15.00 CFD-based Assessment of Fixed Fire-Fighting Systems in
Tunnels
Xavier Ponticq,CETU, France
15.20 Fire in Road Tunnel in Slovenia January 2010
Milan Dubravac, National Fire School, Slovenia
15.40 Coffee break
Explosions
(Chair: Stefan Zmigrodzki, CIMA+ Consulting Engineers,
Canada)
Protective Design Guideline of Tunnels
Sung Choi, Parsons Brinckerhoff/Manhattan College, USA
Design loads and methods for prestressed open cut tunnels
under severe accidental and malicious threats Part I
Explosions
Markus Nöldgen, Cologne University of Applied Science,
Germany, Frank Lukaschek, Andreas Bach and Ingo Müllers,
Schüßler-Plan Inegenieurgesellschaft mbH, Germany
Rescue Operations in Underground Mass Transport Systems
at Fires and Deliberate Attacks
Mia Kumm and Anders Palm, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Studies of Explosions Occurring in a Metro Carriage in a
Tunnel
Gero Meyer and Bo Janzon, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Security
(Chair: Sung Choi, Parsons Brinckerhoff/Manhattan
College, USA)
Safety and security of underground infrastructure – new
concepts for evaluating and mitigating risks of tunnels
Goetz Vollmann and Markus Thewes, Ruhr-University of
Bochum, Germany, Frank Heimbecher, Federal Highway
Research Institute, Germany
Influence of different tunnel ventilation systems on the
dispersion of light and heavy gases due to car accidents
Marion Meinert, Muenster University of Applied Science,
Germany, Wolfram Klingsch, University of Wuppertal,
Germany
Dispersion of a tracer gas in subway tunnels and stations
during operation und non operation hours
Andreas Pflitsch, Markus Brüne and Michael Killing-Heinze,
Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
Identification of critical Tunnels in a Road Network
Ingo Kuandinya and Frank Heimbecher, Federal Highway
Research Institute, Germany
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