ISTSS 2023
Welcome to ISTSS 2023!
26 - 28 April 2023 in Stavanger, Norway
For the upcoming ISTSS conference, you will be engaged in the latest developments on tunnel safety and security, including alternative fuel vehicle safety, fire and explosion hazards, fire suppression, evacuation, fire dynamics, ventilation, risk and emergency management.
Program Day 0 - Tuesday 25 April >>
15.00 Subsea road tunnel safari - joint technical visit together with FIVE (starts in main hall)
Take a look at the preliminary ISTSS program below!
Program Day 1 - Wednesday 26 April >>
09:00 Opening Ceremony
Helen Roth, CEO of VIA – the innovation cluster for transport infrastructure, Norway
Geir Sverre Braut, Senior advisor at Stavanger University Hospital and professor in community medicine at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
09:30 Keynote Session
Risk analysis of fire and explosions in tunnels
Mirjam Nelisse, TNO, The Netherlands
Hydrogen vehicles safety in underground traffic infrastructure: overview of HyTunnel-CS findings
Vladimir Molkov, Ulster University, UK
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Alternative Fuel Vehicles
11:00 - 11:15
The use of Natural Gas Vehicles in underground facilities: Application to the Paris-La-Défense underground network
Benjamin Truchot1*, Christophe Willman2 & Patrick Personna3
1Ineris, Verneuil en Halatte, France
2CETU, Bron, France
3 PARIS LA DEFENSE, Paris La Défense, France
11:20 - 11:35
Safe extinguishment of fire exposed compressed nastural gas (CNG) and hydrogen (H2) cylinders
Jonatan Gehandler, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
11:40 - 11:55
Fire safety of parking garages in respect to electric vehicles: the Singelgarage fire and fire suppression
Nils Rosmuller*, Tom Hessels, Ricardo Weewer, Johan van der Graaf & Joost Ebus
NIPV, Netherlands Institute for Public Safety
12:00 - 12:15
Experimental study of battery fire in a tunnel: Evolution of flame characteristics and temperature profile under longitudinal ventilation
Nannan Zhu1, Fei Tang1, Xiepeng Sun1 , Margaret Mcnamee2*, Longhua Hu1
1 State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
2 Division of Fire Safety Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
12:30 LUNCH
14:00 Risk Management & Explosion (Parallel session 1, Main room)
14:00 - 14:15
Hydrogen Tunnel Risk Assessment – numerical study of selected hydrogen incidents and implementation in the Austrian Tunnel Risk Model
Oliver Heger1*, Regina Schmidt1, Daniel Fruhwirt2* & Martin Aggarwal3
1ILF Consulting Engineers, Graz, Austria
2Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
3Hydrogen Centre Austria Ltd., Graz, Austria
14:20 - 14:35
Life-safety targets in underground stations
Johan Lundin1*, Bo Wahlström1, Erik Hall Midholm1* & Oskar Jansson2
1 Brandskyddslaget AB
2 RiskTec Projektledning AB
14:40 - 14:55
Risk evaluation in road and railroad overbuilding
Erik Hall Midholm*, Rosie Kvål* & Johan Lundin
Brandskyddslaget AB, Sweden
15:00 - 15:15
Risk assessment of decknings of dangerous goods routes – A knowledge inventory
Henrik Tehler1, Johan Lundin2*
1 Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University, Sweden
2 Brandskyddslaget AB, Sweden
14:00 Digitization (Parallel session 2, Break-out room)
14:00 - 14:15
RiskTUN: An ICT-based Concept for a Risk-aware Decision Support System for Tunnel Safety
Naeem Khademi1*, Henrik Bjelland1, Erik G. Nilsson2 &Konstantinos Boletsis2
1University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2SINTEF Digital, Oslo, Norway
14:20 - 14:35
Innovative approach to Improve the Safety of Tunnels and Tunnel Control Centres
Harald Kammerer1*, Bernhard Klampfer1, Anne Lehan2, Hendrik Wahl2
1 ILF Consulting Engineers, Linz, Austria
2 Federal Highway Research Institute, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
14:40 - 14:55
An AIoT-based smart digital twin for real-time tunnel fire safety monitoring
Xiaoning Zhang1*, Xiqiang Wu2 & Xinyan Huang1
1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
2Southeast University, Nanjing, China
15:00 - 15:15
Positioning people in tunnels using Wi-Fi technology
Håkan Frantzich1*, Karl Fridolf2 Staffan Liljestrand3, Alex Henningsson3 & Johan Lundin4
1Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2The Swedish Transport Administration, Malmö, Sweden
3Bumbee Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
4Brandskyddslaget, Stockholm, Sweden
15:30 COFFEE
16:00 Explosions
16:00 - 16:15
Nonlinear analysis of tunnel slab under hydrogen explosion
Wenqian Liu1*, Frank Markert1, Volodymyr Shentsov2 & Luisa Giuliani1
1Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
2Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
16:20 - 16:35
Explosions in road tunnels Part 3: Target failure probability & design values
Mirjam Nelisse & Ton Vrouwenvelder
TNO Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands
17:00 Posters corner (in main hall)
18:00 Cocktail reception and poster session
19:00 End of Day 1
Program Day 2 - Thursday 27 April >>
08:30 Keynote session
08:30 - 08:55
Overview of safety concept for Swedish road tunnels
Ulf Lundström, Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden
09:00 - 09:25
Human behaviour during fires in tunnels
Gunnar Jenssen, SINTEF, Norway
09:30 Ventilation
09:30 - 09:45
Experimental study of smoke characteristics in double-layer tunnel with multiple point extraction by branch pipe
Zhan Wang1,5, Zhi Tang1,5*, Zheng Fang1,5, Zhiming He2, Tao Yang3, Ming Zhou2, Enshi Wang3, Yinhang Xu4, Pei Yu1,5, Qinwen Li1,5
1 School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, China
2 Wuhan Investment Group CO.,LTD., China
3 Wuhan Zhongjiao Traffic Engineering Co., Ltd., China
4Wuhan Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., China
5 Engineering Research Centre of Urban Disasters Prevention and Fire Rescue Technology of Hubei Province, China
09:50 - 10:05
Influence of blockage on smoke control in tunnels
Ying Zhen Li & Haukur Ingason*
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
10:20 COFFEE
10:50 Fixed Fire Fighting Systems
10:50 - 11:05
Review of Design Fire Heat Release Rate for Tunnels with Fire Suppression Systems
Yunlong Liu, Sean Cassady, Petr Pospisil & Eric Jones
HTNB, USA
11:10 - 11:25
CFD modelling of tunnel fires with low-pressure fire suppression systems
Ying Zhen Li1*, Lei Jiang2 & Haukur Ingason1
1 RISE Research Institutes Sweden, Sweden
2 RISE Fire Research AS, Norway
11:30 - 11:45
Experimental study of the performance of a water mist system on fires in a full-scale tunnel
Lei Jiang*, Robert Harley Mostad, Tian Li & Kemal Sarp Arsava
RISE Fire Research AS, Norway
11:50 - 12:05
Design fire heat release rate of flammable liquid fires under water mist suppression in a tunnel
Yunlong Liu, Sean Cassady, Petr Pospisil & Eric Jones
HTNB, USA
12:20 LUNCH
14:00 Tenability and Evacuation (Parallel session 1, Main hall)
14:00 - 14:15
Sprinkler system design using CFD tools for assessing tenability impact and total hydraulic demand
Miguel Ángel Fuentes Llanos, Panos Iliadis & Sohail Alizadeh
Mott MacDonald, United Kingdom
14:20 - 14:35
Experimental Report on a System for Maintaining the Evacuation Environment by Early Detection of Tunnel Fire and Control of Longitudinal Wind Speed
Masahiro YOKOTA, Ken-ichiro YAMAZAKI, Taku NAKAYAMA & Takumi OTA
Central Nippon Highway Engineering Tokyo Company, Japan
14:40 - 14:55
Progressive Evacuation Approach in a High-Security Hazardous Tunnel
Sandeep Upadhya, Jonathan Tang, Mukesh Tomar, James Fletcher & Rares Zupu
Jacobs, UK
15:00 - 15:15
Application and Interpretation of Visibility Through Smoke in Performance-Based Design
Andrew Coles*, Mathilde Girault, Peter Senez & Jordan Brown
Senez Consulting Ltd., Canada
14:00 Emergency Management (Parallel session 2, Break-out room)
14:00 - 14:15
Enhancement of the safety management for the three main passenger railtunnels in Antwerp
Lieven Schoonbaert* , Sven Spelmans, Stefaan Vernieuwe, Olivier Bivort & Christof De Backere
Belgian Railway Infrastructure Manager, Belgium
14:20 - 14:35
Incident management in long railway tunnels, taking the Koramltunnel as an example
Michael Bacher1*, Helmut Steiner2, Daniel Fruhwirt1, Peter Sturm1
1 Graz University of Technology Austria, 8010 Graz, Austria
2 ÖBB Austrian Federal Railways
14:40 - 14:55
Evolution of emergency preparedness: A case study of two Norwegian road tunnels
Jeroen Wiebes Kjos1*, Maria-Monika Metallinou1 & Henrik Bjelland2
1Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
2University of Stavanger, Norway
15:00 - 15:15
Tunnel fire exercise in the Northern Link
Emil Persson*, Björn Hedskog & Bo Wahlström
Brandskyddslaget AB, Sweden
15:30 COFFEE
16:00 Evacuation
16:00 - 16:15
Evacuation shelters in single-tube road tunnels – From a poor reputation to emerging interest
Jeroen Wiebes Kjos1, Henrik Bjelland2*, Ove Njå2, & Inger Lise Johansen3, Sverre Kjetil Rød3
1Western Norway University of Applied Science, Haugesund, Norway
2University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
3Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Lillehammer, Norway
16:20 - 16:35
Analysis of spatial and design factors for users' acceptance of rescue rooms in road tunnels: An experimental study using Virtual Reality
Claudia Moscoso*, Jo Skjermo, Hampus Karlsson, Petter Arnesen, Carl-Johan Södersten, Åsa S. Hoem & Gunnar D. Jenssen
SINTEF Community, Dept. of Mobility and Economics, Trondheim, Norway
16:40 - 16:55
Analysis of visual and acoustic measures for evacuations in road tunnels using virtual reality
Jo Skjermo1*, Claudia Moscoso1, Daniel Nilsson2, Håkan Frantzich3, Åsa S. Hoem1, Petter Arnesen1 & Gunnar D. Jenssen1
1SINTEF Community, Dept. Mobility and Economics, Trondheim, Norway
2University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
3Lund University, Lund, Sweden
19:00 Banquet
Program Day 3 - Friday 28 April >>
08:30 Keynote session
08:30 - 08:55
Why is the tunnel fire safety competence situation so fragmented? The need for a tunnel safety study program.
Ove Njå, University of Stavanger, Norway
SHORT BREAK
09:05 Ventilation (Parallel session 1, Main hall)
09:05 - 09:20
NFPA 502 Critical Velocity Calculation Methodologies and Dimensionless Fire Heat Release Rate
Yinan Scott Shi, Mott MacDonald, Canada
09:25 - 09:40
Numerical study on the influence of the ventilation strategy on life safety in a metro tunnel
Matteo Pachera*, Wouter Van den Berghe, Luc Derie & Johan Dubruel
Sweco, Belgium
09:45 - 10:00
Assessment of Jet Fan Installation Efficiency in Shotcrete-Lined Drill & Blast Tunnel
Iain Bowman*, David Eckford, Sohail Alizadeh, Jay Ganeshalingam, Tommy Norris & Rebecca Zhao
Mott MacDonald, Canada
09:05 Safety Management (Parallel session 2, Break-out room)
09:05 - 09:20
Medical knowledge as prerequisite for establishing criteria for design, management and emergency preparedness in road traffic tunnels
Geir Sverre Braut1*, Harald Søiland2, Haavard Søiland1 & Ove Njå2
1Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
2University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
09:25 - 09:40
Tunnel safety: how about the safety of maintenance workers in tunnel service corridors?
Nils Rosmuller, Johan van der Graaf & Joost Ebus
NIPV, Netherlands Institute for Public Safety Arnhem, The Netherlands
09:45 - 10:00
Bonding behaviour of CFRP composite strengthened tunnel structure under fire exposure
Yi Shen1,2*, Shi-qi Dou2, Cheng Yang2, Long Zhou2, Hui Wang3, He-hua Zhu1,2& Zhi-guo Yan1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China
2Department of Geotechnical Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China
3School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
10:10 COFFEE
10:40 Fire Dynamics
10:40 - 10:55
Study on flame behavior of asymmetric double fires with different seperaton distances in the tunnel
Xudong Cheng, University of Science and Technology of China, China
11:00 - 11:15
Study on the maximum temperature rise beneath the ceiling considering the effect of bifurcated plume flow in longitudinally ventilated tunnel fires
Ganyu Wang1,2,3*, Jiangdong Li1,2,3, Tianhang Zhang1,4, Xiaoqi Zhang1, Jiajun Weng1, Ke Wu1,2,3
1 Key Laboratory of Offshore Geotechnics and Material of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, China
2 Center of Balance Architecture, Zhejiang University, China
3 The Engineering Research Center of Oceanic Sensing Technology and Equipment, Zhejiang University, China
4 Research Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
11:30 Panel Discussion and Conference Closure
12:30 LUNCH
14:00 End of conference
ISTSS 2023 Posters
1
A known unknown concerning the road-based transport of dangerous goods
Christian Henrik Alexander Kuran
University of Stavanger, Norway
2
Case study on the ventilation design of the Kennedy Rail Link
Melchior Schepers1, Wout Verborgt1, Xavier Deckers1 & Bart De Pauw 2
1Jensen Hughes, 2Tuc Rail, Belgium
4
Computer aided resilience assessment
Kalliopi Anastassiadou1, Ulrich Bergerhausen1, Franziska Linstroem2, Christoph Zulauf2
1Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Germany
2EBP Schweiz AG
5
Using existing Radar infrastructure for tunnel safety management and emergency response
Sebastian Baucutt & Ozair Baig
Navtech Radar, UK
6
Computational Assessment of Critical Velocity Criteria in Rail Tunnels
Janaya Walter, Sonia Taylor, Adrian Milford, & Samson Li
Arcadis IBI Group, Vancouver BC, Canada
7
Smart dynamic exit sign system for tunnel fire evacuation: A lab-scale demonstration
Ho Yin Wong, Xiaoning Zhang, Meng Wang & Xinyan Huang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
8
Initial airflow conditions for fire scenarios based on traffic parameters
Jakub Bielawski1*, Wojciech Węgrzyński1, Aleksander Król2 & Małgorzata Król2
1Building Research Institute, Poland
2Silesian University of Technology, Poland
9
A study on the smoke proof test of a positive pressure deployable evacuation passage for subway stairs
Duckhee Lee, Won-Hee Park, Joo-Young Jung & Tae-sun Kwon
Korea Railroad Research Institute
10
Smoke ventilation tests for multipath subway lines using reduced scale tunnel and station model
Won-Hee Park, Yoiung-min Cho, Su-whan Youn, Tae-sun Kwon & Duckhee Lee
Korea Railroad Research Institute
11
Generation of carbon monoxide in fires partially suppressed by water sprays
Haydn Lewis1 & Nils Johansson2
1 Jensen Hughes Pty Limited, Australia
2 Division of Fire Safety Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
12
A numerical investigation on suppressing shielded fires with water mist systems
Azad Hamzehpour*, Vittorio Verda & Romano Borchiellini
Department of Energy (DENERG), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
13
Application of performance based design of fire in a rail tunnel: integrating fire modelling, evacuation analyses and risk assessment
Netsanet Adgeh Ejigu
Bahir Dar Energy Centre, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Ethiopia
14
The development of an e-learning course designed to strengthen Swedish ambulance commanders decision-making in road tunnel incidents
Johan Hylander1, Satish Strömberg2, Anton Westman1,3
1Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden
2Faculty of Arts, Umeå University, Sweden
3Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
15
The performance of water mist systems on extinguishing shielded fires: An experimental study
Azad Hamzehpour*, Vittorio Verda & Romano Borchiellini
Department of Energy (DENERG), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
16
Monitoring of airflow and airborne particles, to provide early warning of irrespirable atmospherics conditions in underground mines
Madeleine Martinsen* & Erik Dahlquist
Mälardalens University, Sweden
17
Extending Cross-Passage Distances
Basar Bulut & Mathias Y.B.Lysholt Hansen
COWI A/S, Denmark
18
Fire emissions from new and existing materials, an occupational issue now and in the future
Evalyne Arinaitwe, Margaret McNamee* & Patrick van Hees
Lund University, Division of Fire Safety Engineering
RISE host ISTSS 2023 and the International conference on Fires in vehicles (FIVE) 2023 during the same week (April, 24 - 28) in Stavanger, Norway at the same site. A discount applies for delegates attending both ISTSS and FIVE.
Read more about FIVE 2023 here.