Performance-Based Fire Engineering of Structures
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2012
394 pages
978-1-135-24739-3 (ISBN)
Description
Major events notably the Broadgate fire in London, New York's World Trade Center collapse, and the Windsor Tower fire in Madrid as well as the enlightening studies at the Cardington fire research project have given international prominence to performance-based structural fire engineering. As a result, structural fire engineering has increasingly at
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
31 s/w Tabellen, 217 s/w Abbildungen
217 b/w images, 31 tables and Around 500 Equations
ISBN-13
978-1-135-24739-3 (9781135247393)
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Yong Wang | Ian Burgess | Frantisek Wald
Performance-Based Fire Engineering of Structures
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04/2017
1st Edition
CRC Press
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Yong Wang | Ian Burgess | Frantisek Wald
Performance-Based Fire Engineering of Structures
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06/2012
1st Edition
CRC Press
€313.80
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Yong Wang, Ian Burgess, Frantisek Wald, Martin Gillie
Content
Introduction to Fire Safety Engineering and the Role of Structural Fire Engineering. Recent Major Structural Fire Events and Their Implications. Introduction to Enclosure Fire Dynamics. Heat Transfer. Material Properties. Element Structural Fire Resistance Design. Global Modelling of Structures in Fire. Steel and Composite Joints. Integrity of Compartmentation. Robustness of Structures in Fire. The Practical Application of Structural Fire Engineering for a Retail Development in the United Kingdom.
