Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures

by John A. Purkiss, Long-Yuan Li

Overview

Designing structures to withstand the effects of fire is challenging, and requires a series of complex design decisions. This third edition of Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures provides practising fire safety engineers with the tools to design structures to withstand fires. This text details standard industry design decisions, and offers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040061145
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	452
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

John A. Purkiss, Long-Yuan Li

Table of Contents

Fire Safety Engineering. Design Philosophies. Prescriptive Approach. Behaviour of Natural Fires. Properties of Materials at Elevated Temperatures. Calculation Approach. Design of Concrete Elements. Design of Steel Elements. Composite Construction. Design of Timber Elements. Masonry. Aluminium. Plastics and Glass. Frames. Assessment and Repair of Fire Damaged Structures. References. Author Index . Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Li and Purkiss have produced an extremely well researched, comprehensively referenced and informative book."
—Building Engineer, October 2014

"A standard reference for everyone who is and will be involved in fire safety."
—Ralph Hamerlinck, Bouwen met Staal

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