Abstract
Fire safety engineering (FSE) provides means to design fire safety measures which are balanced with respect to their effectiveness and benefits. This presentation describes a risk-based FSE approach and its use to analyse structural fire resistance with respect to its significance in improving safety in case of fire. This approach is then applied to a large public building under construction in France. This public building is a museum that concerns exhibition of first arts. It consists mainly of arts 2000 years old, which in terms of fire safety mean that the objects may range a large wooden system to a very small steel knife. But the modern exhibition hall has also large public space for computer and internet presentation, or large temporary exhibition zone.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods |
| Subtitle of host publication | Luxembourg, 6-8 October 2004 |
| Pages | 397-408 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| MoE publication type | Not Eligible |
Keywords
- fire safety engineering
- fire simulation
- thermo-mechanical analysis
- fire risk
- risk-based
- fire resistance