Abstract
Fire safety engineering (FSE) provides means to design fire safety measures which are balanced with respect to their effectiveness and benefits. The presentation describes a risk-based FSE approach and its use to analyse structural fire resistance with respect to its significance in improving fire safety. The analysis is applied to two single-story steel-framed buildings representing low and high-risk buildings. The approach employs probabilistic fire simulation using the novel PFS-Ozone tool. The influence of the active fire safety measures are incorporated to the model using the novel time-dependent event tree method. In the high-risk building, the analysis of structural stability is given an in-depth consideration using 3D thermo-mechanical analysis.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Fire and Explosion Hazards |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th International Seminar |
Pages | 505-514 |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | 4th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards, ISFEH 2003 - Londonderry, United Kingdom Duration: 8 Sept 2003 → 12 Sept 2003 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards, ISFEH 2003 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Londonderry |
Period | 8/09/03 → 12/09/03 |
Keywords
- fire resistance
- fire simulation
- probabilistic analysis
- structural analysis
- PFS
- Ozone
- Monte Carlo