Journals >> Abstract VOLUME 7. No. 1. (June 1994)
Building Fire Safety Design Using the Risk Assessment Approach : ( P. Narayanan)
The objective of the fire risk assessment approach is to apply rational risk assessment techniques to assess the cost effectiveness of fire safety provisions in buildings. The fire risk assessment approach constitutes systematic consideration of the various aspects associated with buildings such as it?s use, the characteristics of it?s occupants, the potential for fire growth and development, the passive and active protection needs, facilities for occupants to avoid untenable conditions and the availability of fire fighting resources.
Practical Fire Modelling ? Example of Emergency Movement following a Fire Alarm ? Worked Example : (C.R. Barnett)
This is a worked example for emergency movement from a multi- storey building following an alarm. This building would be required to have an Evacuation Scheme Plan under the Fire Safety and Evacuation of Building Regulations 1992. Nevertheless, this worked example can be used to demonstrate what would happen if the Evacuation scheme plan did not work and to demonstrate the times taken to evacuate the entire building in each three phases normally used in the Evacuation scheme plan.
DZ 3101 : Draft of the Standard for the Design of Concrete Structures : ( D. Bull)
Many designers are familiar with the conventional fully ductile structures acting as primary lateral force resisting systems. Structures and individual elements may be considered to be of limited ductility and designed accordingly if limited ductile performance better suits the structural nature of the building. This approach also applies to bridge structures. Such structures would be assigned a ductility factor between 1.25 and 3.
