ENFE618-25X (C) General non-calendar-based 2025

Advanced Structural Fire Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 23 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 August 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 October 2025

Description

Major structural fire events and their implications; Material properties at elevated temperatures; Global modelling of structures in fire; Joints at elevated temperatures; Robustness of structures in fire

Advanced Structural Fire Engineering builds on ENFE601 Structural fire engineering to expose graduate students and engineering professionals to, and help them apply, advanced information and methodologies to assess structural performance under fire conditions.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, participants will have developed a deeper appreciation of the different methodologies for complex analyses of building behaviour under fire conditions and will be able to apply these methodologies to evaluate the resistance of steel, concrete, steel-concrete composite and heavy timber construction under fire conditions.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Intensive Block Course A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
4 Aug - 10 Aug
Intensive Block Course B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
4 Aug - 10 Aug
Intensive Block Course C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00 FENZ Engineering Facility - Henderson Room
4 Aug - 10 Aug

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Anthony Abu

Assessment

Assignment 1 – Modelling with ABAQUS
10 %

Assignment 2 – Advanced hand calculations
15%

Assignment 3 – Modelling appraisal
15%

Assignment 4 – Major modelling exercise
40%

Tutorials
10%

Presentations (2)
10%

The assignments are designed to cover specific material which will be relevant to the major topics covered in the course. Questions will be released as they become available, and sufficient time will be provided for completion of each assignment. Submission dates will be communicated on LEARN.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended References (this list is in no way exhaustive):

Structural Design for Fire Safety (2nd Edition) by A. H. Buchanan and A. K. Abu (John Wiley & Sons, UK)
Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures (3rd Edition) by J. A. Purkiss & L.Y. Li (2014)
Performance-based fire engineering of structures by Y. Wang, I Burgess, F Wald and M. Gille (2013)
SFPE Handbook (5th Edition)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

* 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.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 30

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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