Road Tunnel Fire Safety: Determining the effect of the performance of technological systems for fire detection on fire detection time and on the total evacuation time

This MSc thesis treats the challenging subject of road tunnel fire safety. More specifically, the goal of this research study was to investigate the performance of a state-of-the-art fire detection system and determine the effect of the detection time on the evacuation process in case of a fire emergency. As a result, the Linear Heat Detection ...

Numerical Analysis of Stability of Steel Columns With Thermal Gradients

This thesis studies the buckling behavior of I-shaped steel columns under the effect of thermal gradients. The mechanical properties of steel decay signicantly with increasing temperature. Therefore, in case of a re, the buckling resistance of steel columns is considerably reduced due to the decrease in the modulus of elasticity and yield...

Egress as Part of Fire Safety in High-rise Buildings

The process of evacuating some large high-rise buildings may take upwards of several hours. One question that needs to be asked, however, is whether it is feasible and desirable to completely evacuate the high-rise building in fires. This research seeks to remedy this problem by proposing one or more efficient egress plan(s) for high-rise...

Feasibility study on fiber reinforced polymer cylindrical truss bridges for heavy traffic

Considering the recent increase in the use of fiber reinforced polymers in the civil engineering industry in general and in the bridge engineering industry in particular, as well as the recently more and more applied cylindrical truss bridge type, this research focuses on the question whether it is possible to combine fiber reinforced polymers...