Design Against Fire
Introduction to Fire Safety Engineering Design
Published in December 1993
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-419-18170-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Design Against Fire" has been written specifically to enable designers, services engineers and building control officers to employ fire safety techniques in their day-to-day work. As such it should act as a design support tool for fire safety design and management strategies. The book is based on an innovative post graduate fire engineering course held at the Queens's University of Belfast.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
80 illustrations, glossary, index.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-419-18170-5 (9780419181705)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Fire sciences - ignition, fire growth, heat and smoke. Fire safety engineering - objectives, tactics, acceptability and equivalency. Fire prevention - designing against arson attack - psychology, investigation, security measures, terrorism. Fire communications - detection, comprehension, alarm. Human behaviour and fire escape - perception of fire, response, time. Fire escape in difficult situations - human characteristics, mobility, psychology, egress, refuge and rescue. Principles of fire containment and smoke control - terminology, pressurisation, dispersal, smoke control. Examples of integrated approaches to fire engineering design - case studies. Fire information. Fire safety education.