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Fire safety in tunnels

✍ Scribed by Alan N. Beard

Book ID: 108131767
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 181 KB
Volume: 44
Category: Article
ISSN: 0379-7112
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2008.06.008

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