Probability-Based Structural Fire Load
Probability-Based Structural Fire Load
£125.00
GBPIn the structural design of airframes and buildings, probability-based procedures are used to mitigate the risk of failure as well as produce cost-effective designs. This book introduces the subject of probabilistic analysis to structural and fire protection engineers and can also be used as a reference to guide those applying this technology. In addition to providing an understanding of how fire affects structures and how to optimize the performance of structural framing systems, Probability-Based Structural Fire Load provides guidance for design professionals and is a resource for educators. The goal of this book is to bridge the gap between prescriptive and probability-based performance design methods and to simplify very complex and comprehensive computer analyses to the point that stochastic structural fire loads have a simple, approximate analytical expression that can be used in structural analysis and design on a day-to-day basis. Numerous practical examples are presented in step-by-step computational form.
- Numerous practical examples are presented in step-by-step computational form
- Statistical data has been created based on deterministic analyses of structural fire load
- Magnitudes of thermal forces induced by fire for structural design are obtained
- Thermal and mechanical response of the whole structure to fire has been presented
Product details
October 2014Hardback
9781107038745
350 pages
260 × 182 × 23 mm
0.9kg
88 b/w illus. 48 tables 90 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Introduction to probability theory
- 3. Random processes
- 4. Very fast fire severity: probabilistic structural fire-resistance design
- 5. Fast fire and life-cycle cost analysis
- 6. Medium fire severity and thermal-diffusivity analysis
- 7. Slow fire severity and structural analysis and design.
