Designing Against Fire

This paper considers the design of buildings for fire safety. It is found that fire and the associated effects on buildings is significantly different to other forms of loading such as gravity live loads, wind and earthquakes and their respective effects on the building structure. Fire events are d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: I. D. Bennetts, I. R. Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Electronic Journals for Science and Engineering - International 2007-01-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering
Online Access:http://10.0.0.97/EJSE/article/view/62