WP 5
Work Package Leader:
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EVALUATION OF SAFETY LEVELS AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING TUNNELS
Professor Gabriel Alexander Khoury
(FSD)
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This task encapsulates the essence of the UPTUN project, namely, the evaluation and upgrading of the safety level of existing tunnels - both at the component level and holistically - in an integrated fashion consistent with the safety levels established in this project as a whole. In that respect, this work-package brings together all the various strands from the other work-packages and will therefore inevitably require input from, and collaboration with, all the partners of this major project.
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Technical tasks
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Objectives
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5.1
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Identifying safety features to be evaluated.
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To ensure that the safety features to be evaluated are clearly identified in a rational manner.
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5.2
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Setting criteria for evaluating safety levels and systems failure.
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To ensure that the evaluation criteria are clearly defined in a rational manner taking into consideration the interaction between the different safety features.
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5.3
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Holistic evaluation and upgrading of existing tunnels safety.
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To develop a procedure called “UPGRADE” for evaluating and upgrading the safety level of a tunnel as a whole and to present the output in terms of risk profiles for both people and the infrastructure. An assessment of fire risk profiles for a tunnel before and after upgrading will then allow the socio-economic impact to be evaluated in Task 5-5 at both the micro and macro levels.
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5.4
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Example: Upgrading of an existing tunnel.
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To demonstrate the practical utility of the evaluating and upgrading procedure by applying it to an existing tunnel.
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5.5
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Financial, socio-economic, macroeconomic and environmental valuation of upgrading tunnels to improve fire safety.
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To demonstrate the cost effectiveness of the UPTUN project and assess its wider socio-economic impact.
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