Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures
eBook - PDF

Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures

  1. 452 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures

About this book

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

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Disclaimer
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of Acronyms
  7. Notation
  8. Chapter 1: Fire safety engineering
  9. Chapter 2: Design philosophies
  10. Chapter 3: Prescriptive approach
  11. Chapter 4: Behaviour of natural fires
  12. Chapter 5: Properties of materials at elevated temperatures
  13. Chapter 6: Calculation approach
  14. Chapter 7: Design of concrete elements
  15. Chapter 8: Design of steel elements
  16. Chapter 9: Composite construction
  17. Chapter 10: Design of timber elements
  18. Chapter 11: Masonry, aluminium, plastics, and glass
  19. Chapter 12: Frames
  20. Chapter 13: Assessment and repair of fire-damaged structures
  21. References
  22. Back Cover