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Introduction to specific fire engineering design of buildings. Active and passive fire protection. Severity of post-flashover fires. Fire resistance of steel, concrete and timber structures.
Structural Fire Engineering introduces graduate students and engineering professionals to performance-based design of structures for fire situations. It covers general fire safety principles, fire resistance and the behaviour, analysis and design of structures at elevated temperatures. In exploring the available fire engineering design methods, the course examines prescriptive approaches, simple calculations and advanced calculation methods. It is aimed at enhancing structural engineering practice for the design of structures exposed to fires.
At the end of this course, participants will have an understanding of the fundamental behaviours of individual structural elements and structural systems in fires. Students should be able to distinguish between conditions where tabulated and simplified calculations of fire resistance of structural elements are applicable, and where advanced calculations are either the only alternative or a better option. Principally, they will be able to make calculations of:Heat release rates of materials and items of furnitureTemperatures in post-flashover firesFire spread by radiation from building to buildingEquivalent fire severityTemperatures in structural assemblies using hand calculation methods and finite element softwareLoads and safety factors for structural fire designFire resistance of heavy timber and light timber frame structuresFire performance of steel and concrete structures using hand and advanced calculation methods
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
This course will be offered in ‘Block Mode’ in 2011For all students there will be guided individual study, including set readings and assignments, with two three-day blocks at the University of Canterbury.For Christchurch students there will be an additional one-hour tutorial every other week, beginning Wednesday, 10th August 2011.
Anthony Abu
Andy Buchanan
Grant Dunlop and Robert Wilsea-Smith
BHP Steel; Hot rolled and structural steel products ; 98 ed; BHP Steel, 1998.
Buchanan, Andrew Hamilton; Structural design for fire safety ; Wiley, 2001 (Available from dept).
Buchanan, Andrew Hamilton , Structural Engineering Society New Zealand, New Zealand Fire Protection Association; Fire engineering design guide ; 2nd ed; Centre For Advanced Engineering, 2001.
Drysdale, Dougal; An introduction to fire dynamics ; 2nd ed; Wiley, 1999.
England, J. P. , Building Control Commission (Victoria), Warrington Fire Research (Australia); Guide for the design of fire resistant barriers and structures ; Building Control Commission ;Warrington Fire Research, 2000.
National Fire Protection Association. , Society of Fire Protection Engineers; SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering ; 4th ed; National Fire Protection Association ;Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 2008.
Purkiss, J. A; Fire safety engineering : design of structures ; 2nd ed; Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
Wang, Y. C; Steel and composite structures : behaviour and design for fire safety ; Spon Press, 2002.
Winstone Wallboards; Penetrations in Gib Fire Rated Systems ; 2006.
Winstone Wallboards Ltd; Gib Fire Rated Systems ; 2006.
Domestic fee $676.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .