Structural Design For Fire Safety

Author : Andrew H. Buchanan,Anthony Kwabena Abu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470972892

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Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition Andrew H. Buchanan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Anthony K. Abu, University of Canterbury, New Zealand A practical and informative guide to structural fire engineering This book presents a comprehensive overview of structural fire engineering. An update on the first edition, the book describes new developments in the past ten years, including advanced calculation methods and computer programs. Further additions include: calculation methods for membrane action in floor slabs exposed to fires; a chapter on composite steel-concrete construction; and case studies of structural collapses. The book begins with an introduction to fire safety in buildings, from fire growth and development to the devastating effects of severe fires on large building structures. Methods of calculating fire severity and fire resistance are then described in detail, together with both simple and advanced methods for assessing and designing for structural fire safety in buildings constructed from structural steel, reinforced concrete, or structural timber. Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition bridges the information gap between fire safety engineers, structural engineers and building officials, and it will be useful for many others including architects, code writers, building designers, and firefighters. Key features: • Updated references to current research, as well as new end-of-chapter questions and worked examples. •Authors experienced in teaching, researching, and applying structural fire engineering in real buildings. • A focus on basic principles rather than specific building code requirements, for an international audience. An essential guide for structural engineers who wish to improve their understanding of buildings exposed to severe fires and an ideal textbook for introductory or advanced courses in structural fire engineering.

Author : Andrew H. Buchanan,Anthony Kwabena Abu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118700389

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Structural Design for Fire Safety by Andrew H. Buchanan,Anthony Kwabena Abu Pdf

Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition Andrew H. Buchanan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Anthony K. Abu, University of Canterbury, New Zealand A practical and informative guide to structural fire engineering This book presents a comprehensive overview of structural fire engineering. An update on the first edition, the book describes new developments in the past ten years, including advanced calculation methods and computer programs. Further additions include: calculation methods for membrane action in floor slabs exposed to fires; a chapter on composite steel-concrete construction; and case studies of structural collapses. The book begins with an introduction to fire safety in buildings, from fire growth and development to the devastating effects of severe fires on large building structures. Methods of calculating fire severity and fire resistance are then described in detail, together with both simple and advanced methods for assessing and designing for structural fire safety in buildings constructed from structural steel, reinforced concrete, or structural timber. Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition bridges the information gap between fire safety engineers, structural engineers and building officials, and it will be useful for many others including architects, code writers, building designers, and firefighters. Key features: • Updated references to current research, as well as new end-of-chapter questions and worked examples. •Authors experienced in teaching, researching, and applying structural fire engineering in real buildings. • A focus on basic principles rather than specific building code requirements, for an international audience. An essential guide for structural engineers who wish to improve their understanding of buildings exposed to severe fires and an ideal textbook for introductory or advanced courses in structural fire engineering.

Author : Andrew H. Buchanan,Anthony Kwabena Abu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118700396

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Structural Design for Fire Safety by Andrew H. Buchanan,Anthony Kwabena Abu Pdf

Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition Andrew H. Buchanan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Anthony K. Abu, University of Canterbury, New Zealand A practical and informative guide to structural fire engineering This book presents a comprehensive overview of structural fire engineering. An update on the first edition, the book describes new developments in the past ten years, including advanced calculation methods and computer programs. Further additions include: calculation methods for membrane action in floor slabs exposed to fires; a chapter on composite steel-concrete construction; and case studies of structural collapses. The book begins with an introduction to fire safety in buildings, from fire growth and development to the devastating effects of severe fires on large building structures. Methods of calculating fire severity and fire resistance are then described in detail, together with both simple and advanced methods for assessing and designing for structural fire safety in buildings constructed from structural steel, reinforced concrete, or structural timber. Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition bridges the information gap between fire safety engineers, structural engineers and building officials, and it will be useful for many others including architects, code writers, building designers, and firefighters. Key features: • Updated references to current research, as well as new end-of-chapter questions and worked examples. •Authors experienced in teaching, researching, and applying structural fire engineering in real buildings. • A focus on basic principles rather than specific building code requirements, for an international audience. An essential guide for structural engineers who wish to improve their understanding of buildings exposed to severe fires and an ideal textbook for introductory or advanced courses in structural fire engineering.

Author : John A. Purkiss,Long-Yuan Li
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466585478

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Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures, Third Edition by John A. Purkiss,Long-Yuan Li Pdf

Designing structures to withstand the effects of fire is challenging, and requires a series of complex design decisions. This third edition of Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures provides practising fire safety engineers with the tools to design structures to withstand fires. This text details standard industry design decisions, and offers expert design advice, with relevant historical data. It includes extensive data on materials’ behaviour and modeling -- concrete, steel, composite steel-concrete, timber, masonry, and aluminium. While weighted to the fire sections of the Eurocodes, this book also includes historical data to allow older structures to be assessed. It extensively covers fire damage investigation, and includes as far back as possible, the background to code methods to enable the engineer to better understand why certain procedures are adopted. What’s new in the Third Edition? An overview in the first chapter explains the types of design decisions required for optimum fire performance of a structure, and demonstrates the effect of temperature rise on structural performance of structural elements. It extends the sections on less common engineering materials. The section on computer modelling now includes material on coupled heat and mass transfer, enabling a better understanding of the phenomenon of spalling in concrete. It includes a series of worked examples, and provides an extensive reference section. Readers require a working knowledge of structural mechanics and methods of structural design at ambient conditions, and are helped by some understanding of thermodynamics of heat transfer. This book serves as a resource for engineers working in the field of fire safety, consultants who regularly carry out full fire safety design for structure, and researchers seeking background information. Dr John Purkiss is a chartered civil and structural engineer/consultant and former lecturer in structural engineering at Aston University, UK. Dr Long-Yuan Li is Professor of Structural Engineering at Plymouth University, UK, and a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Author : Jean Marc Franssen,Venkatesh Kodur,Raul Zaharia
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203875490

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Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety by Jean Marc Franssen,Venkatesh Kodur,Raul Zaharia Pdf

Structural design in fire conditions is conceptually similar to structural design in normal temperature conditions, but often more difficult because of internal forces induced by thermal expansion, strength reduction due to elevated temperatures, much larger deflections, and numerous other factors. Before making any design decisions it is esse

Author : John A. Purkiss,Long-Yuan Li
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466585485

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Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures by John A. Purkiss,Long-Yuan Li Pdf

Designing structures to withstand the effects of fire is challenging, and requires a series of complex design decisions. This third edition of Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures provides practising fire safety engineers with the tools to design structures to withstand fires. This text details standard industry design decisions, and offers

Author : John Purkiss
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780750664431

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Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures, Second Edition by John Purkiss Pdf

An essential resource on the design and performance of common structural materials when they are exposed to fire.

Author : Kevin J. LaMalva,Structures Engineering Institute (American Society of Civil Engineers). Fire protection Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Building, Fireproof
ISBN : 0784415048

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Structural Fire Engineering by Kevin J. LaMalva,Structures Engineering Institute (American Society of Civil Engineers). Fire protection Committee Pdf

Prepared by the Fire Protection Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE Structural Fire Engineering provides best practices for the field of performance-based structural fire engineering design. When structural systems are heated by fire, they experience thermal effects that are not contemplated by conventional structural engineering design. Traditionally, structural fire protection is prescribed for structures after they have been optimized for ambient design loads, such as gravity, wind, and seismic, among others. This century-old prescriptive framework endeavors to reduce the heating of individual structural components with the intent of mitigating the risk of structural failure under fire exposure. Accordingly, the vulnerability of buildings to structural failure from uncontrolled fire varies across jurisdictions-which have differing structural design requirements for ambient loads-and as a function of building system and component configuration. As an alternative approach, Standard ASCE 7-16 permits the application of performance-based structural fire design (also termed structural fire engineering design) to evaluate the performance of structural systems explicitly under fire exposure in a similar manner as other design loads are treated in structural engineering practice. Structural fire engineering design is the calculated design of a structure to withstand the thermal load effects of fire, which have the potential to alter the integrity of a structure, based on specific performance criteria. This manual, MOP 138, addresses the current practice, thermal and structural analysis methods, and available information to support structural fire engineering design. It covers - Background information on the protection of structures from fire and the effects of fire on different types of construction, - Key distinctions between standard fire resistance design and structural fire engineering design, - Guidance for evaluating thermal boundary conditions on a structure because of fire exposure and on conducting heat transfer calculations based on the material thermal properties, - Performance objectives for structures under fire exposure, and - Analysis techniques that can be used to quantify structural response to fire effects. This Manual of Practice is a valuable resource for structural engineers, architects, building officials, and academics concerned with performance-based design for structural fire safety.

Author : Feng Fu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000338348

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Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings by Feng Fu Pdf

Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects, and students with a systematic introduction to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines, and codes. It covers almost all aspects of fire safety design that an engineer or an architect might encounter—such as performance-based design and the basic principles of fire development and heat transfer. It also sets out an effective way of preventing the progressive collapse of a building in fire, and it demonstrates 3D modeling techniques to perform structural fire analysis with examples that replicate real fire incidents such as the Twin Towers and WTC7. This helps readers to understand the design of structures and analyze their behavior in fire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642241822

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Structural Design for Fire Safety by Anonim Pdf

Fire protection of building structural systems traditionally has relied on component qualification testing, with acceptance criteria based on component survival during a "standard" fire for a prescribed rating period. These test procedures do not address the impact of the fire on a structural system. With advances in fire science and the advent of advanced structural analysis, the routine use of the computer as a design tool and limit states design, it is becoming possible to consider realistic fire scenarios and effects explicitly as part of the structural design process. Structural Design for Fire Safety specifically intends to highlight another major anomaly that currently exists in structural engineering practice. Although structural engineers of the world have access to the most sophisticated design tools and technologies for ensuring fire safety.It addresses structural fire safety, which is a key consideration in the design of buildings, and a topic attracting worldwide attention. Significant advances in research have increased our knowledge on the behavior of steel and steel-concrete composite structures in fire. Some areas are becoming well understood (like the behavior of isolated elements in conventional building materials), while others areas (such as global behavior of structures in fire, or constitutive modeling of innovative building materials at elevated temperatures) need further investigation. This book is intended to review progress in this area and to present latest developments with respect to future structural fire design. It will focus on the research needs for developing consistent methodologies for addressing this issue from a structural engineering perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Building, Fireproof
ISBN : UOM:39015061157965

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Introduction to the Fire Safety Engineering of Structures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevin LaMalva,Danny Hopkin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030771232

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International Handbook of Structural Fire Engineering by Kevin LaMalva,Danny Hopkin Pdf

This Handbook is focused on structural resilience in the event of fire. It serves as a single point of reference for practicing structural and fire protection engineers on the topic of structural fire safety. It is also stands as a key point of reference for university students engaged with structural fire engineering.

Author : Andrew Hamilton Buchanan,Anthony Abu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Building, Fireproof
ISBN : 1523114630

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Structural Design for Fire Safety by Andrew Hamilton Buchanan,Anthony Abu Pdf

Author : Structural Engineering Institute. Special Design Issues--Fire Protection Committee
Publisher : Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0784409633

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Performance-based Design of Structural Steel for Fire Conditions by Structural Engineering Institute. Special Design Issues--Fire Protection Committee Pdf

MOP 114 presents a new method developed to improve the design of structural steel for fire conditions.

Author : T. T. Lie
Publisher : Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0872628884

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Structural Fire Protection by T. T. Lie Pdf

Provides a basis for developing new standards to calculate the fire resistance of structural members, mostly in buildings. Considers building codes and techniques of fire protection, the behavior of fire in enclosed spaces and its effect on various building materials, and methods for calculating fir