The Effectiveness of Fire Protection System for Bukit Berapit High-speed Rail Tunnel
The development of technology in transportation industry especially rail transportation is an alternative solution to Malaysia Transportation Issues. The initiative of the government to develop Mega Project such as Electrics Train Service (ETS) in the year 2015, consisting the railway from Kuala...
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2021
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| Summary: | The development of technology in transportation industry especially rail transportation
is an alternative solution to Malaysia Transportation Issues. The initiative of the
government to develop Mega Project such as Electrics Train Service (ETS) in the year
2015, consisting the railway from Kuala Lumpur to Padang Besar, Perlis and it helps
to reduce the amount of traffic on road and lessen the time spent to travel from these
two places. This project includes the building up of two unique Train Tunnels and
categories as Twin Tunnel that are 3.3kilometre length in Bukit Berapit and
1.1kilometre length in Bukit Larut, Perak. The Twin Railway Tunnel in Bukit Berapit,
Perak is the longest in Malaysia ever built. The development of this twin train tracks is
brought by the local engineering expertise with the advisory by international expert.
One of the important components of its development is to ensure the main build up
standards and life safety in this twin railway tunnel project is given priority. Based on
the statistics by Bureau of Transportation in United States, accident that involved in
Train Tunnels are 11 accidents and resulting 343 death and 81 injuries with multiples
factor most of it caused by electrical failure and results to fires. Based on the statistics,
2 most important safety element in developing Bukit Berapit Twin Railway Tunnel are
life safety and properties of the building. The safety elements need to be considered are
fire protection system and the fire retardant material. The preliminary concept of this
project is using the combination of Italian Standards and NFPA 130, since there are no
local standards to be referred. This research focused on the best standard practises from
other countries for the purpose to evaluate the effectiveness of fire protection system
used in Bukit Berapit Railway Tunnel. Therefore, a few researches on standard’s, site
visits, survey and interviews the expert had been conducted. Based on the research
findings, there are 10 parameters identified and it will be suggested as a benchmark on
making standards in building up Railway Tunnel in Malaysia in the future. Fires is a
great danger to human life especially when occurs in a confined space. Railway tunnel
fires is uncommonly occurred, and railway tunnels typically require large investments
in providing fire protection. It is necessity to understand the reasons for the first
consideration in developing railway tunnel in such of fire safety. As this railway tunnel
is the first project in Malaysia and has no local standard, much attention needs to be
given to fire prevention, such as stability, integrity, and structural assessment during
fire and fire extinguishing system reactions. Two factors will be focused mainly on:
passive fire protection system and active fire extinguishing system to study the
effectiveness of fire safety concept for Bukit Berapit tunnel. (Abstract by author) |
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