New Challenges in Tunnel Fire Safety

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The interest in tunnel fire safety and security has increased enormously in the last decade. I have personally been involved in research studies on tunnels since 1993, when the EUREKA 499 tests were carried out. Much has changed in the field since then, especially compared to our basic field understanding from that time and in light of the subsequent applications of engineering correlations for tunnel fire safety. Today, there are two important books available that provide a good, state-of-the-art overview of the field of tunnel fire safety: The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety [1], edited by Alan Beard and Richard Carvel, and the recently published Tunnel Fire Dynamics [2], written by Haukur Ingason, Ying Zhen Li, and Anders Lönnermark. Since EUREKA 499, a vast number of scientific articles on tunnel fire safety has been published, and the number is increasing continuously. It is important to maintain and strengthen our existing field knowledge and to present new, up-to-date research, when available. …