This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK.

The ASFE'17 conference will be the next in a series (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 ) of successful conferences that aim to bring together experts and specialists in design against fire from all over the world to share ideas and to acquire knowledge in the field of structural fire engineering.

Practice in structural engineering increasingly accepts the benefits of performance-based approaches to the design of structures for fire...