Fire safety engineering is a specialist discipline which can combine a risk based approach to determining the fire period with detailed finite element modelling to predict actual performance of the structure and fire protection measures in a fire. Each stage of the advanced design process modelling the fire, determining the heat trasfer to the structure, and high temperature structural analysis is discussed. The correct definition of the design fire for open plan compartments is identified as the critical knowledge gap that must be addressed in order to achieve tall building performance objectives and to provide truly innovative, robust fire safety for these unique structures. Longyuan li preface since the publication of the second edition of this book, structural fire safety engineering has become a recognized engineering discipline and.
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