Structural fire engineering /
Structural Fire Engineering provides best practices for the field of performance-based structural fire engineering design. When structural systems are heated by fire, they experience thermal effects that are not contemplated by conventional structural engineering design. Traditionally, structural fi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reston, Virginia :
American Society of Civil Engineers,
[2018]
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| Series: | ASCE manuals and reports on engineering practice ;
no. 138. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Structural Fire Engineering provides best practices for the field of performance-based structural fire engineering design. When structural systems are heated by fire, they experience thermal effects that are not contemplated by conventional structural engineering design. Traditionally, structural fire protection is prescribed for structures after they have been optimized for ambient design loads such as gravity, wind, and seismic, among others. This century-old prescriptive framework endeavors to reduce the heating of individual structural components with the intent of mitigating the risk of structural failure under fire exposure. Accordingly, the vulnerability of buildings to structural failure from uncontrolled fire varies across jurisdictions-which have differing structural design requirements for ambient loads-and as a function of building system and component configuration. As an alternative approach, Standard ASCE 7-16 permits the application of performance-based structural fire design (also termed structural fire engineering design) to evaluate the performance of structural systems explicitly under fire exposure in a similar manner as other design loads are treated in structural engineering practice. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0784481490 9780784481714 0784481717 9780784481493 |