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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.
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 furniture- Temperatures in post-flashover fires- Fire spread by radiation from building to building - Equivalent fire severity- Temperatures in structural assemblies using hand calculation methods and finite element software - Loads and safety factors for structural fire design - Fire resistance of heavy timber and light timber frame structures- Fire performance of steel and concrete structures using hand and advanced calculation methods
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
There are no formal lectures in this course. - The course is based on guided self-study, using the textbook Structural Design for Fire Safety andother references on structural fire engineering. - By the end of the course, students are expected to know and understand the basic material in thereference textbook, the material described in the course and the additional material in the references.
Anthony Abu
Andy Buchanan
Grant Dunlop and Robert Wilsea-Smith
James O'Neill
Assignments must be submitted by the due date on LEARN. James will note receipt of each assignment, and carry out marking. He will post marks as soon as they are available. Late assignments are unacceptable, and will not be marked.Students resident in Christchurch will have one tutorial every other week (Wednesday 9 am-10 am), beginning 1st August 2012. - During each tutorial there will be a discussion on selected topics (from the textbook and other reference material). Questions will be posted on LEARN one week before the Tutorial. Students not living in Christchurch are expected to do the same reading and must submit detailed written(typed) answers to three-six of the listed questions.- The written answers should total between 900 and 1000 words, i.e. about 2 pages of typed text. Please note that these word limits are rigid.- The deadline for answers (on LEARN) is at 9.00 am on the same day as the tutorial in Christchurch.Please NOTE: - The deadlines for all assignments are displayed on the Course Schedule and on LEARN - Any significant items covered in the tutorials (or in the written answers) will be distributed or put on LEARN during the week before the next tutorial - Any changes to course dates or other details will be communicated through LEARN. It is theresponsibility of each student to check the LEARN website regularly - Presentations: There will be two presentations during the course (one for each block course). You may self-select teams on LEARN on a first come first served basis for the first presentation. Partners for the second presentation will be assigned during Block CourseThe final exam will be an 'open book take-home exam, on LEARN. The exam should also be submitted on LEARN.All submissions should be single (typed) PDF documents
Buchanan, Andrew Hamilton; Structural design for fire safety ; Wiley, 2001.
Drysdale, Dougal. , Wiley InterScience (Online service); An introduction to fire dynamics ; 3rd ed; Wiley, 2011.
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.
Silyn-Roberts, Heather; Writing for science : a practical handbook for science, engineering and technology students ; Longman, 1996.
Spearpoint, Michael John. , New Zealand Centre for Advanced Engineering; Fire engineering design guide ; 3rd ed; New Zealand Centre For Advanced Engineering, 2008.
Wang, Y. C; Steel and composite structures : behaviour and design for fire safety ; Spon Press, 2002.
GIB® Fire Rated Systems. Winstone Wallboards Ltd. 2006 TH 8139 .G437 2001 freePenetrations in GIB® Fire Rated Systems. Winstone Wallboards Ltd. 2006 Hot-rolled and Structural Steel Products. BHP Steel, Australia TS 309 .B0575 1998Introductory books on Structural Engineering (For non-structural engineers) Understanding Structures by Derek Seward - Macmillan 2000 TA 633 .S514The Science of Structures and Materials by J. Gordon. Scientific American Library, 1988 TA 405 .G663Why Buildings Stand Up - The Strength of Architecture by M. Salvadori. McGraw Hill, 1980 TH 845. S182 w 2002 An Introduction to the Principles of Building and Structural Engineering. Revised by Ian Buckle. Longman Scientific and Technical, 1978 TA 633 .M849.
Domestic fee $879.00
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 .