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Performance-Based Fire Safety Design (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,252
Discovery Miles 22 520
Performance-Based Fire Safety Design (Hardcover): Morgan J. Hurley, Eric R. Rosenbaum

Performance-Based Fire Safety Design (Hardcover)

Morgan J. Hurley, Eric R. Rosenbaum

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Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and the Assessment of Design Alternatives Performance-Based Fire Safety Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire protection problems in the built environment. It also provides an understanding of the performance-based design process, deterministic and risk-based analysis techniques, development of design fire scenarios, trial design development and analysis, and building lifecycle management. Develop a Strategy That Meets the Fire Safety Goals for a Building Topics addressed include designing to protect people from fire, design of detection systems, smoke control systems and structural fire resistance, addressing computational and design uncertainty, and fire testing to support design development or evaluation. Identifies key attributes of performance-based design Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of performance-based design over specification-based prescriptive design Provides a series of steps offering a framework/process for performance-based design Performance-Based Fire Safety Design focuses on the development and application of performance-based fire safety design approaches. Written by leading experts in the field, this text addresses the unique features and uses of a building and helps you gain a better understanding of how a building will perform in the event of a fire.

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Imprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: April 2015
First published: 2015
Authors: Morgan J. Hurley • Eric R. Rosenbaum
Dimensions: 241 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 978-1-4822-4655-1
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > Fire protection & safety
LSN: 1-4822-4655-4
Barcode: 9781482246551

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