scholarly journals Building Fire Safety, Structural Fire Tests, and Performance Based Codes

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
T. D. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Fire Tests ◽  
Structural Fire ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Legal Framework for Building Fire Safety Regulations in Spain

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Amaya Osácar ◽  
Juan Bautista Echeverria Trueba ◽  
Brian Meacham
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Ideal

There is a trend in Europe towards increasing the quality and performance of regulations. At the same time, regulatory failure has been observed in the area of building fire safety regulation in England and elsewhere. As a result, an analysis of the appropriateness of fire safety regulations in Spain is warranted, with the objective being to assess whether a suitable level of fire safety is currently being delivered. Three basic elements must be considered in such analysis: the legal and regulatory framework, the level of fire risk/safety of buildings that is expected and the level which actually results, and a suitable method of analysis. The focus of this paper is creating a legal and regulatory framework, in particular with respect to fire safety in buildings. Components of an ”ideal” building regulatory framework to adequately control fire risk are presented, the existing building regulatory framework is summarized, and an analysis of the gaps between the ideal and the existing systems is presented. It is concluded that the gaps between the ideal and the existing framework are significant, and that the current fire safety regulations are not appropriate for assuring delivery of the intended level of fire risk mitigation.

scholarly journals Risk Index Method—A Tool for Building Fire Safety Assessments

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3566
Author(s):  
Dorota Brzezińska ◽  
Paul Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
Industrial Fire ◽  
Safety Assessments ◽  
And Performance

The use of fire safety engineering and performance-based techniques continues to grow in prominence as building design becomes more ambitious, increasing complexity. National fire safety enforcement agencies are tasked with evaluating and approving the resulting fire strategies, which have similarly continued to become more advanced and specialist. To assist with the evaluation of fire strategies, this paper introduces a methodology dedicated to sustainable building fire safety level simulations. The methodology derives from ideas originally introduced in British Standard Specification PAS 911 in 2007 and combines a visual representation of fire strategies with a semi-quantitative approach to allow for their evaluation. The concept can be applied to a range of industrial fire safety assessments and can be modified for specific needs relative to different industries.

scholarly journals Fire Behavior of the Assembled Monolithic Hollow-Ribbed Slabs

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Li ◽  
Y. Q. Lin ◽  
H. L. Zhang ◽  
M. J. Ma
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Optimum Design ◽  
Fire Resistance ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Fire Tests ◽  
Structural Fire ◽  
Temperature Distributions ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

This paper presents the results from the furnace tests conducted on two assembled monolithic hollow-ribbed (AMH) slabs consisting of the open box and the covered box, respectively. Detailed experimental data in the form of describing slab cracking or spalling, furnace temperatures, temperature distributions, and vertical deflections are presented. Comparison of the results from the two fire tests indicates that the covered box shows better fire resistance compared to the open box; thus, the covered box is recommended to adopt in structural fire-resistant design. However, they are both prone to cracking or spalling at their bottom surfaces during the fire tests, so the AMH slab still needs further optimum design to meet its requirements of fire resistance and service function. In addition, the sealing quality of congruent boxes also has a great influence on the fire resistance of the AMH slab.

scholarly journals Research on IFC- and FDS-Based Information Sharing for Building Fire Safety Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyong Shi ◽  
Jicao Dao ◽  
Liu Jiang ◽  
Zeyu Pan
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Fire Safety ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Safety Analysis ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Fire Simulation ◽  
Fire Dynamics ◽  
Building Fire ◽  
Building Information

With the development of computer processors, vast numerical simulation tools are widely used by fire engineers to determine the spread of fire and smoke. However, the fire modeling practices are often highly time-consuming and cost-intensive especially for building geometry information which does limit the further implementation of building fire safety analysis. Although nowadays building information modeling (BIM) has become a buzzword in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) field to facilitate information integration and interoperability, data sharing and exchange are still weak in the traditional interoperability between BIM applications and fire simulation software, since the data schema of them are totally different. In this paper, a quick and accurate approach for information sharing for building fire safety analysis between mainstream BIM applications and widely used fire simulation software has been successfully implemented, based on Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). And, both geometrical building information and sematic information can be shared by this approach through the transformation of coordinate systems, outer database, and IFC file extension. The BIM model restoring fire simulation results can support other performance-based design of building, such as structural fire-resistant design and evacuation design. And, all of the analysis results including building fire simulation, structure safety design, and evacuation simulation can be integrated in Autodesk Revit, establishing a framework of IFC- and FDS-based information sharing for building fire safety analysis successfully. A gymnasium has been taken as a case study to illustrate the capability of this framework.

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