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Global flow behaviors of multiple shafts in shallow-buried urban road tunnels subjected to fire load
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Daolong Xiong, Shiqi Zhang, Yan Ouyang, Yan Tong*, Zelin Liu, Kaiquan Chen, Peng Wang, Yinqing Zhou
Underground Space | 2026, 27 : 340 - 361
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Global flow behaviors of multiple shafts in shallow-buried urban road tunnels subjected to fire load
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Daolong Xiong, Shiqi Zhang, Yan Ouyang, Yan Tong*, Zelin Liu, Kaiquan Chen, Peng Wang, Yinqing Zhou
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  • College of Urban Construction, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China
Published: 2026-04-10 doi: 10.1016/j.undsp.2025.10.010
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Shallow-buried urban road tunnels with shafts (URTS) have reduced traffic congestion in large cities. During fire scenarios, the backflows occur at those shafts far away from the fire source inhibiting smoke exhaust, but its rules have been unknown. A 400 m (length) × 12 m (width) × 5.5 m (height) physical model with 6-7 shafts over the ceiling is established using fire dynamic simulator software. The simulations are carried out after validation by both a small-scale experiment and a full-scale experiment. A total of 16 cases with 4 heat release rates (HRRs) and 4 spacing of fire source from the nearest unit shaft #1-1 (sf-us1), are designed. Results indicate that the smoke spreading length is nearly independent of HRR but increases with sf-us1. Ceiling smoke temperatures follow the power exponential laws, and the attenuation coefficients decrease with the increase of HRR and sf-us1. The farther away from the fire, the more likely the occurrence of shaft backflow. A good power exponential rule of the shaft negative mass flow rate is fitted out, and values of decay coefficient b2 range from 0.56 to 1.0. Based on dimensional analysis, a power exponential rule of the shaft dimensionless net mass flow rate is fitted for the exhaust shafts and a linear rule for the backflow shafts. The shaft neutral plane heights range from 1.4 m to 3.6 m for the exhaust shafts and 3.2 m to 5.4 m for the backflow shafts. Also, a linear rule is fitted. This study establishes the smoke backflow theory in URTS during fire scenarios and contributes to the tunnel fire protection engineering.

Tunnel  /  Shaft  /  Fire  /  Smoke  /  Backflow  /  Neutral plane
Daolong Xiong, Shiqi Zhang, Yan Ouyang, Yan Tong, Zelin Liu, Kaiquan Chen, Peng Wang, Yinqing Zhou. Global flow behaviors of multiple shafts in shallow-buried urban road tunnels subjected to fire load[J]. Underground Space, 2026 , 27 : 340 -361 . DOI: 10.1016/j.undsp.2025.10.010
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(52278112)
Year 2026 volume 27 Issue 0
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doi: 10.1016/j.undsp.2025.10.010
  • Receive Date:2025-07-09
  • Online Date:2026-06-17
  • Published:2026-04-10
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  • Received:2025-07-09
  • Revised:2025-09-24
  • Accepted:2025-10-29
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National Natural Science Foundation of China(52278112)
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    College of Urban Construction, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, China

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* Corresponding author. E-mail address: (Y. Tong).
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