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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"fire engineering"”.
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STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT FROM DISTRIBUTED FIBER OPTIC SENSORS IN PERFORMANCE-BASED FIRE ENGINEERING
… of steel and concrete structures under fires is critical to the understanding of structural performance yet historically challenging due to a significant gap in measurement science. This Ph.D. study characterizes in six parts low-cost distributed fiber optic sensors and applies them to …
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The use of numerical optimisation techniques in computational fire engineering models: a study through evacuation modelling analyses
… in the transition process from prescriptive fire safety codes to performance-based ones over the last three decades. In fact, such models became also useful tools in different tasks within fire safety engineering field, such as fire risks assessment and fire investigation. However, there are …
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Fire engineering in sustainable buildings: An Evaluation for the application of Performance Based Design in Abu Dhabi
Sustainable Building Design and Engineering is an integrated approach to energy, health, and operational performance. Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) is experiencing a phenomenal growth in built environment. In this context, the Abu Dhabi Government has taken initiatives and …
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Automated Compliance Audit Processes for Building Information Models with an application to performance-based fire engineering design methods
Every architectural and building engineering design in the AEC/FM (Architectural, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management) domain is subject to conformance with a diverse range of statutory requirements and standards before the official consent for construction may be granted by the …
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Prediction of water droplet behaviour during fire extinguishment
Sprinklers have been used in fire suppression for about 100 years. Even though their design has changed from simple perforated pipes to sophisticated automatic systems of mist and sprinkler nozzles, still they play the same role - they dramatically reduce death and injuries due to fire, as well as …
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Application of computational fluid dynamics techniques to the analysis of building fires
… and recreate the complicated development of fires in buildings of a non-trivial geometry. It also includes comparative studies of different codes in a practical context and an examination of the limitations and adaptability of state of the art general purpose CFD code for fire modelling. This …
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Integrating Structural Fire Analysis with Hybrid Fire Testing: A Framework for Enhanced Stability, Software development and Full-Scale Evaluation.
Abstract Understanding how structures behave in a fire is becoming increasingly important as engineers move toward performance-based design. Conventional fire-resistance tests evaluate isolated components under simplified and constant boundary conditions, and numerical models remain constrained by …
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Computer simulation of fire-sprinkler interaction
… the problem of the mathematical modelling of fire and fire-sprinkler scenarios. This involved the numerical simulation of two-phase, three-dimensional, buoyant, turbulent, recirculating flows. The simulations were carried out in two successive and distinct stages. The first stage dealt with …
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Collapse simulations of steel buildings under fire
… WTC-7. The collapse, attributed mainly to fires resulting from the attacks, raised concerns regarding the level of robustness in steel frames when subjected to fire loadings. While complete collapse of steel buildings under elevated temperature is considered a rare event, as no cases have …
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Experimental and numerical studies of whirling fires
… understand the physical mechanisms of whirling fires that occur in an open space and within enclosures. Buoyant whirling flames may be potentially more destructive than ordinary fires due to greater burning rate, higher concentration of heat release in a small region of the plume core, increased …
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The development of automatic fire protection methods for computing and telecommunications areas
… disruption, as downtime resulting from a fire condition could lead to huge financial losses. Minimising negative impact on an organization and the need for a sound basis in the decision making process are the fundamental reasons why companies implement fire risk management for their …
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Effectiveness of smoke barriers: pressurised stair enclosures
… Throughout the years, however, many within the Fire Engineering industry have commented that SPS do not really perform as per their design intent. In order to assess this belief, an investigation was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of a SPS, whereby the effectiveness was assessed by …
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Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering
… occupants in, for example, a building in which a fire has broken out. The extended QRA considers the inherent uncertainty in the variables explicitly. The standard QRA does not consider the uncertainties in the variables and must be complemented by a sensitivity analysis or an uncertainty …