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Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 515 pages) : , illustrations

Edition: Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

ISBN: 0470863277 , 9780470863275 , 9781613449165 , 161344916X , 1280271671 , 9781280271670 , 9786610271672 , 6610271674 , 0470300345 , 9780470300343 , 0470863285 , 9780470863282

Content: Around the world, prescriptive building codes and fire safety standards are increasingly being replaced or supplemented by performance-based standards. This book discusses the implications in the industry to provide increased design flexibility, lower costs, improved safety, and even enhanced global trade. The building fire performance evaluation procedures described in this book can be used with any code, standard, or regulatory requirements. The key feature of this publication is its aid to professionals who work in the building and other such industries to make better decisions concerning fi.

Note: BUILDING FIRE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1 Understanding, deciding, communicating; 2 Fire defenses; 3 Basic concepts; 4 The anatomy of building fires; 5 A way of thinking; 6 Framework for analysis; 7 Prolog to applications; 8 Design fires; 9 Barriers and multiroom fires; 10 Barrier performance; 11 Detection and Initial Actions; 12 Fire service manual suppression; 13 Automatic sprinkler suppression; 14 Putting it together: the L curve; 15 Concepts in structural frame analysis; 16 Smoke analysis; 17 Building performance; 18 Risk characterizations. , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. , English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books.

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/0470863285

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