ISTSS 2020

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08:45 - 09:00  Introduction to webinar features

09:00 - 09:10    Welcome to the 9^th ISTSS!

09:10  - 09:35
KEYNOTE 1: Influence of digital transformation on the interaction between tunnel infrastructure and road user - opportunities and risks
Anne Lehan, BAST Federal Highway Research Institute, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

09:40 - 10:05
KEYNOTE 2: Proposed best practice for the engineering of smoke-management systems in tunnels and other underground facilities
Rune Brandt, CEO and technical director, HBI Haerter, Zürich, Switzerland

10:10  - 10:25
Experimental study of backlayering length and critical velocity in longitudinally ventilated tunnel fire with wide-shallow cross-section
Tianhang Zhang*¹, Ganyu Wang¹, Kaijie Wu¹, Yadong Huang², Kai Zhu¹ & Ke Wu^1
1Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
²Zhejiang General Fire and Rescue Brigade, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

10:30  - 10:40    Break

10:40 - 10:55
Ventilation control in complex tunnels – results from system tests
Johannes Rodler¹, Peter Sturm², Gregor Schmoelzer¹, Patrik Foessleitner¹, Michael Bacher² & Daniel Fruhwirt^2
1FVT mbH, Graz, Austria
²Graz University of Technology, Austria

11:00  - 11:15
Fire & Water Mist vs. Longitudinal Ventilation in Tunnels
Jamie Crum & Ricky Carvel, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK

11:20  - 11:35
Integration of a 1D model with FDS for multiscale analysis of tunnels
Jesus Mejias*, Elisa Guelpa & Vittorio Verda, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

11:40  -  11:55
Model scale tests with automatic sprinkler in a tun­nel
Haukur Ingason, Ying Zhen Li, Magnus Arvidson, & Lei Jiang, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden

12:00 - 12:10    Break

12:10 - 13:00  Poster Session:
Digitalized FBG fire detection in road tunnel
Xinmin Du*, Guang Zhang, Ying Zhen Li & Hao Zhao

Optimal Spacing of Jet Fan in Extra-long tunnel fire under a Longitudinal Ventilation System
Imad Obadi, Miaocheng Weng & Fang Liu

Theoretical analysis and numerical study on air and smoke flow characteristics under traffic blockage in highway tunnels
Jing Wu & Feimin Shen

Construction of INA Line-7 Metro Station Over Operational Twin Metro Tunnels of Line-3 of DMRC
Saurabh Sharma, Ashwani Kumar & Virender Sattawan

Evacuation experiments in an urban road tunnel with large open shafts
Yuxin Zhang, Ricky Carvel*, Zhiguo Yan & Hehua Zhu

Natural ventilation smoke management experiments in an urban road tunnel with large open shafts
Yuxin Zhang, Ricky Carvel*, Zhiguo Yan & Hehua Zhu

3D-CFD Simulations of pool-fires, comparison with experimental data
Daniel Fruhwirt & Peter Sturm

U-Threat project - resilience of underground transport – Evacuation of users from a metro train on fire in a tunnel
Christophe Willmann, Nikolaos Voagiokas, Christophe Chaise, Peter Hoffman & Julia Nass

Renewable fuels during underground work – low risk, obvious benefit but nevertheless a utopia?
Jonatan Gehandler

Current status of international tunnel standards and guidelines for water-based Fixed Fire Fighting Systems
Tim Usner* & Armin Feltmann 

13:00  - 14:00  Lunch break

14:00  -  14:15
Multi-Train Ventilation Section Quantitative Risk Assessment in Underground Rail Systems
Peter Woodburn* & Adam Ross, ARUP, London, UK

14:20  -  14:35
Quantitative risk assessment of a Fixed- Fire-Fighting-System in the rescue station of the Semmering Base Tunnel
Oliver Heger*¹, Florian Diernhofer¹, Verena Langner² & Thomas Thaller^3
1ILF Consulting Engineers Austria GmbH, Linz, Austria
²Gruner GmbH, Vienna, Austria
³OEBB-Infrastruktur AG, Graz, Austria

14:40  -  14:55
A comparison of safety risk acceptance principles for UK tunnels
Mike Deevy*, Gabor Posta & Adam Ross, Arup, London, UK

15:00  -  15:15
Building Safety Management Systems dedicated to safe tunnel operation
Hélène Mongeot* & Marc Tesson, Centre for Tunnel Studies (Centre d’Etudes des Tunnels, CETU), Bron Cedex, France

15:20  - 15:30    Break

15:30  -  15:45
Vulnerability- and resiliency analysis for urban metro systems – methods and approaches of structurized assessments
Goetz Vollmann*¹, Christophe Willmann², Christian Thienert³, Jean-Baptiste Bevillard⁴ & Alexander Dahl^5
1Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
²Centre d’etudes des tunnels, Bron cedex, France
³STUVA, Cologne, Germany
⁴Arcadis ESG, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
⁵PTV AG, Berlin, Germany

15:50  -  16:05
An Approach for Defining Minimum Operating Requirements for Incident Management of Road Tunnels in Germany
Bernhard Kohl*¹, Harald Kammerer¹, Michael Barth², Ulrich Bergerhausen³ & Selcuk Nisancioglu^3
1ILF Consulting Engineers Austria, Linz, Austria
²ILF Consulting Engineers Germany, Munich, Germany
³Federal Highway Research Institute, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

16:10  -  16:25
Railcar Design Fire Determination – Testing and CFD Modelling
Matthew Bilson* & Xinhe Liu, WSP USA, New York, US

16:30  -  16:45
Fire Safety for the Seattle SR99 Highway Tunnel – The Owner’s Perspective
Iain Bowman¹ & Susan Everett^2
1Mott MacDonald, Vancouver, BC, Canada
²Washington State Department of Transportation, Seattle, WA, USA

16:50  - 17:00    Thank you for today!

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08:30 - 08:40    Welcome

08:40 - 09:05 
KEYNOTE 3: Operational considerations for tunnel safety
Trond H. Hansen, Incident commander / Tunnel rescue operations advisor, Oslo Fire and Rescue Service, Norway

09:10 - 09:35
KEYNOTE 4: Innovation and new technologies as tactic resources during fire and rescue operations in tunnels
Mia Kumm, RISE Research Insititutes of Sweden, Sweden

09:40  - 09:55
Experimental Study on Smoke Confinement by Water Spray in Tunnel Fire
Beihua Cong* & Xin Han
Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

10:00  - 10:10    Break

10:10 - 10:25
Energy and Safety Diagnostic in Underground Facilities
Madeleine Martinsen*¹, Erik Dalhqvist¹, Anders Lönner­mark² & Örjan Säker^3
1Mälardalens University, Västerås, Sweden
²Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden
³Roctec Automation Epiroc Rock Drills AB, Örebro, Sweden

10:30  - 10:45
Explosions in road tunnels - Part 2: A quantitative risk analysis
Mirjam Nelisse* & Ton Vrouwenvelder, TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Delft, The Netherlands

10:50  -  11:05
Safety in the Brenner Base Tunnel: Risk Assessment
Giuseppe Venditti & David Marini, Galleria di Base del Brennero – Brenner Basistunnel BBT SE, Bolzano, Italy

11:10  - 11:20    Break

11:20  - 11:35
Elevator evacuation and human behaviour – A literature review, design method and a case study
Axel Mossberg*^1,2, Daniel Nilsson³ & Håkan Frantzich^1
1Division of Fire Safety Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
²Brandskyddslaget, Stockholm, Sweden
³Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

11:40  - 11:55
Ascending evacuation in an inclined tunnel
Artur Storm* & Eva-Sara Celander, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Västerås, Sweden

12:00  -  12:15
Uncertainties related to fire smoke toxicity in tunnels
Lene Østrem¹ & Ove Njå*^2
1Gassco, Kopervik, Norway
²University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

12:20  - 13:10  Lunch break

13:10  - 13:25
Modelling fire occurrences in heavy goods vehicles in road tunnels
Ådne Njå*¹, Jan Terje Kvaløy¹ & Ove Njå^2
1Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
²Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

13:30  -  13:45
Dangerous goods vehicles in road tunnels, a significant modification of French risk analysis
Christophe Willmann* & Michel Deffayet, CETU (tunnel study centre), Lyon, France

13:50  -  14:05
How electric vehicles change the fire safety design in underground structures
Marie Kutschenreuter¹, Stephan Klüh*¹, Max Lakkonen², Rajko Rothe² & Frank Leismann^3
1FOGTEC Brandschutz GmbH, Cologne, Germany
²IFAB Institute for Applied Fire Safety Research, Berlin, Germany
³STUVA e.V., Cologne, Germany

14:10  -  14:25
New energy carriers and additional risks for user’s safety in tunnels
Christophe Willmann* & Benjamin Truchot, CETU, Bron cedex & INERIS, Paris, France

14:30 - 14:40    Break

14:40  -  14:55
Transmutation of the most important Underground Rail Infrastructure in Belgium – Brussels North South Link - from post World War II into the 21th Century
Lieven Schoonbaert*, Stefaan Vernieuwe & Stijn Eeckhaut, INFRABEL – The Belgian railway infrastructure manager, Brussels, Belgium

15:00  -  15:15
Recommendations for firefighters lifts in underground stations
Daniel Hahne¹ & Stefan Rehm*^2
1Research Association for Tunnels and Transport Facilities (STUVAtec), Cologne, Germany
²Munich Fire Brigade, preventive fire safety department, Munich, Germany

15:20  -  15:35
Breathing air consumption in the fire tests at the Tistbrottet mine
Anders Palm*^1,2, Mia Kumm^2,3, Artur Storm³ & Anders Lönnermark^3
1Greater Stockholm Fire Brigade, Stockholm, Sweden
²Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
³RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden

15:40 - 15:50  Break

15:50  -  16:05
Optimising tunnel design using physiological impact on firefighters as a metric
Peter Woodburn & Danielle Antonellis, Arup, London, UK

16:10  -  16:25
Improving Effectiveness of Tunnel Incident Management
Gary English, Underground Command and Safety, Vashon, WA, USA

16:30  -  16:45
Fire detection in railway tunnels - Full scale fire tests
Igor Maevski, Jeffrey Bott*, Andre Calado, Raymond Klein, David Hahm, Robert Faddoul, Jackie Chen, & Kevin Ficarra, Jacobs Engineering, New York, USA

16:50  - 17:00    Thank you for today!

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08:30 - 08:40    Welcome

08:40 - 09:05
KEYNOTE 5: Underground Fire Safety in Germany
Roland Leucker, STUVA Research Association for Tunnels and Transportation Facilities, Cologne, Germany

09:10  - 09:25
Full scale experimental study on the performance of fire detection systems for underwater tunnel
Xin Han*, Shaohua Sun, & Beihua Cong, Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

09:30 - 09:45
Fire tests with a line type heat detection system in the Runehamar tunnel
Ying Zhen Li*¹ & Xinmin Du^2
1RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden
²Bandweaver Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

09:50  - 10:05
Numerical modelling of a line type heat detection system in tunnel fires
Ying Zhen Li, Lei Jiang* & Haukur Ingason, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden

10:10  - 10:20    Break

10:20  -  10:35
Tests of spilled liquid fires in a tunnel drainage system
Haukur Ingason*, Ying Zhen Li, & Lei Jiang, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden

10:40  - 10:55
Assessment and upgrade of the fire resistance of the Waterwolftunnel
Leander Noordijk*¹, Albert Kandelaar², Coen van der Vliet¹, Ronald Heijmans¹ & Bart Duijvestijn¹
1Arcadis Nederland BV
2Province of Noord Holland

11:00  -  11:15
Experimental investigation of a cement-free shotcrete in case of fire: Spalling tendency, thermal and mechanical properties
Christian Rhein*¹, Anna-Lena Hammer¹, Götz Vollmann¹, Eugen Kleen², Dirk Uhlmann², Thorsten Weiner³, Joachim Budnik³, Thomas Rengshausen³ & Christian Thienert^4
1Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
²MC Bauchemie, Bottrop, Germany
³PORR Deutschland GmbH, BU3-International, Düsseldorf, Germany
⁴STUVA, Cologne, Germany

11:20  -  11:35
Ventilation during a fire incident in a road tunnel with contra-flow traffic
Daniel Feest & Hing-Wai Wong, WSP, Guildford, Surrey, England

11:40  - 11:55
Local fire tests of CNG vehicle containers
Jonatan Gehandler* & Anders Lönnermark, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Borås, Sweden

12:00  - 12:10    Break

12:10  - 13:00    Award Ceremony  &  Closing Ceremony