Fire Emergency Preparedness at the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels, CO

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• Creators:
  McDaniel, Kirk ; Enright, Chris ; Brune, Jürgen ; Zurhorst, Max ; Gilmore, Richard ; Ostoyich, Ryan
• Corporate Creators:
  Colorado School of Mines
• Corporate Contributors:
  Colorado Department of Transportation. Office of Applied Research ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Vehicular tunnels
  • Fire prevention
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Emergency management
  • Risk management
  • Hazard analysis
  • fire life safety
  • fire scenarios
  • fire suppression system
  • Fire Dynamic Simulator
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CDOT-2017-06
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Colorado
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Colorado Department of Transportation. Applied Research & Innovations Branch
• Description:
  The Department of Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) has been charged by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to evaluate fire life safety at the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels (EJMT),particularly with the recent completion of a fixed fire suppression system (FFSS) for the tunnel interior. Over the past year, a research team at CSM conducted a detailed examination of the policies, methods and infrastructure related to response to fire emergencies at the tunnel complex. Researchers utilized a risk assessment model and computational fluid dynamics(CFD) modeling for fire dynamics simulation. With this detailed evaluation process, researchers developed a series of recommendations and conclusions for facility and process improvements at the EJMT.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  316.01
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92849/dot_92849_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 717.42 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5366e0d0ace847ad2f3a45904865d5d4e8386db6de57f47843c5132e96cb3f7e23e44c01b1f074b9819a33af7c7e058f2049b47552c74ca9660acc6128502f6b