Fire Prevention and Control in Urban Infrastructure and Underground Space: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255). This special issue belongs to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 2274
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban fire protection theory, including fire spread and disaster behavior; intelligent fire protection; new urban fire protection theory and technology; urban emergency rescue technology, including hardware and software system development of emergency rescue equipment; emergency rescue auxiliary decision systems
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Interests: urban public safety; big data application; safety risk monitoring and early warning; emergency intelligent decision and simulation; intelligent fire fighting
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Interests: fire mechanism; fire engineering; building fire protection theory and engineering application; fire protection and emergency rescue in urban underground space such as subway and tunnel; emergency rescue technology and equipment; UAV fire rescue technology and intelligent fire fighting
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Interests: tunnel fire; wildland fire; fire dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The continuous increase in population size has generated significant pressure for urban development, and above-ground space has become saturated with plenty of buildings. It is necessary to take full advantage of underground space to solve our current resource and environmental problems, and create comfortable living conditions for people. The comprehensive development and utilization of large-scale and diversified urban underground space has potential to solve the three major problems of urban overpopulation, environmental degradation and shortage of resources, and it is currently the main trend in underground space development and utilization. In the large-scale development and utilization of underground space, fire safety is the most striking issue. Due to the specific nature of underground space, its potential risk factors are far greater than those of above-ground buildings, especially underground public gathering places. Evacuation and rescue are far more difficult than above-ground, and the damage incurred is much greater. Most underground spaces are very small, and once a fire occurs, serious consequences will ensue, which will not only cause damage to the structure of the underground space, but also threaten the life and safety of the people inside. This is exacerbated by people having a narrow extent of vision underground and a poor sense of orientation. Accidents can easily lead to panic. Underground space mainly includes civil defense engineering, commercial space, and subways, etc. There are certain differences in various space forms, which cause difficulties in fire prevention and control operations. Traditional fire-prevention measures show certain limitations, and cannot meet the fire-protection requirements of modern underground spaces, and it is difficult to meet fire safety standards. Therefore, in-depth analysis of the characteristics and causes of fires in underground spaces, comprehensive optimization and improvement of relevant fire-prevention measures combined with the basic characteristics of underground spaces, research on fire prevention countermeasures, and prevention of fire occurrences are major subjects to investigate to strengthen fire-prevention measures for underground spaces. In founding this special issue, we invite original research papers in the fields of fire safety engineering with a focus on the research of underground fires, underground fire mechanisms, novel underground fire prevention technology, etc.
Prof. Dr. Guowei Zhang
Prof. Dr. Diping Yuan
Prof. Dr. Guoqing Zhu
Dr. Yunji Gao
Dr. Hui Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fire mechanism
- fire risk assessment
- monitoring and early warning
- emergency rescue
- fire fighting
- smart fire fighting
- Internet of Things
- big data application
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