Book Description

Structural Fire Engineering provides comprehensive and practical design guidance on the application of structural fire engineering to specialist structural engineers.  The chapters provide an insight into the explanation of the structural fire engineering design process, its position within the regulatory system and guidance on the selection of appropriate partial factors for the fire limit state for variations in material properties and loading. The book places structural fire engineering design procedures within a context and framework which will be familiar to many readers. The information on standard methods of test and assessment and their function within the regulatory framework provides a broader perspective to the design standards.

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Regulatory requirements

(Historical background. Building regulations and associated guidance. Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order)

3. Fire test and assessment procedures

(Reaction to fire. Fire resistance. External wall construction)

4. Structural fire engineering design

(Compartment time-temperature response. Heat transfer.  Load effects at the fire limit state)

5. Fire engineering design of concrete structures

(Introduction. Available options. Comparison with BS 8110. Worked example. Spalling)

6. Fire engineering design of steel structures

(Introduction. Available options. Comparison with BS 5950 Part 8. Worked examples. Design guidance)

7. Fire engineering design of composite steel and concrete structures

(Introduction. Available options)

8. Fire engineering design of timber, masonry and aluminium structures

(Introduction. Fire engineering design of timber structures. Fire engineering design of masonry structures. Fire engineering design of aluminium structures)

9. Fire engineering design of connections

(Introduction. Timber connections. Concrete connections. Steel connections)

10. Whole building behaviour and large-scale testing

(Introduction. Cardington fire tests. Discussion)

11. Current and future issues

(Modern methods of construction. Fires during construction)

Index

This title is jointly published by ICE Publishing and IHS BRE Press.