Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings

ISBN-13: 9780367444525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 226 str.

Feng Fu

Opis

Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects and students with systematic introductions to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines and codes.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Regulatory requirements and basic fire safety design principles 3 Fundamentals of fire and fire safety design 4 Structural fire design principles for tall buildings 5 Typical fire safety design strategy for tall buildings 6 Fire analysis and modeling 7 Preventing fire-induced collapse of tall buildings 8 New technologies and machine learning in fire safety design 9 Post-fire damage assessment

O autorze

Dr. Feng Fu worked for several world-leading consultancy companies including WSP Group, where he was one of the key team members in structural fire design of the tallest building in Western Europe, the Shard. He serves for two building design standard committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and also acts as an associate editor and editorial board member for three international journals, He published more than 100 technical papers and three textbooks including Structural Analysis and Design to Prevent Disproportionate Collapse (CRC Press, 2016).