Full-Scale Fire Test of an Intercity Train Car 中间火车全尺度火灾测试.pdf

12 Fire Technology 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York. Manufactured in The United States DOI: 10.1007/s10694-015-0482-1 Full-Scale Fire Test of an Intercity Train Car Duck Hee Lee and Won Hee Park, Korea Railroad Research Institute, Uiwang, South Korea Jungho Hwang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea George Hadjisophocleous*, Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Received: 24 October 2014/Accepted: 16 March 2015 Abstract. Fire development inside a train car is a topic that has not been studied ex- tensively due to the complexity of the problem and the need for a real train car and the appropriate facilities to conduct these tests in a controlled environment. This pa- per presents detailed experimental data on fire development inside a real intercity train car. The facility used for the tests is capable of conducting such large-scale fires and measuring the heat release rate using oxygen consumption calorimetry. Thermo- couples and plate thermometers were installed inside the train car to provide an in- sight of the fire development. A number of cameras were also placed inside the car and in the tunnel providing live videos during the test. The peak heat release rate was 32 MW at 1081 s after ignition, and the fire burned 83% of the initial fire load. Flame spread data and recordings of window breaking events are discussed and com- pared to the heat release rate data. A local flashover-type phenomenon where the fire involved all combustibles at the rear of the car was foun