Fire Safety Engineering Design of StructuresDesigning 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 |
Contents
Fire safety engineering | 1 |
Design philosophies | 13 |
Prescriptive approach | 25 |
Behaviour of natural fires | 41 |
Properties of materials at elevated temperatures | 75 |
Calculation approach | 145 |
Design of concrete elements | 181 |
Design of steel elements | 211 |
Composite construction | 261 |
Design of timber elements | 289 |
Masonry aluminium plastics and glass | 311 |
Frames | 327 |
Assessment and repair of firedamaged structures | 351 |
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Back Cover | 401 |
Other editions - View all
Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures, Third Edition John A. Purkiss,Long-Yuan Li Limited preview - 2013 |
Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures, Third Edition John A. Purkiss,Long-Yuan Li No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
aggregate aluminium ambient analysis Anderberg applied axial beam behaviour boundary buckling calculation capacity coefficient compartment composite compression concrete strength construction creep deflection density depth determined effect elastic elastic modulus elevated temperatures Engineering Equation Eurocode exposure Figure finite element finite element analysis fire limit fire load fire performance fire protection Fire Safety fire test flange floor frame Francis Group given heat flow heat transfer Hertz insulation intumescent isotherm kg/m³ limit state design Malhotra masonry material maximum method modulus moisture normal parameter partial safety factors plastic Purkiss ratio reduced safety engineering Schneider slab spalling specific heat steelwork strength loss strength reduction strength reduction factors stress stress-strain curve structural fire Table Taylor & Francis temperature temperature rise temperature-time tensile thermal conductivity thickness timber tion transient strain values wall water vapour Wickström YM,fi Young's modulus