Fire-safety engineering and performance-based codes

Fire-safety Engineering is written as a textbook for Engineering students at universities and other institutions of higher education that teach in the area of fire. The book can also be used as a work of reference for consulting engineers, Building product manufacturers, contractors, building project

administrators, etc.

The book deals with the following topics:

• Historical presentation on the subject of fire

• Legislation and building project administration

• European fire standardization

• Passive and active fire protection

• Performance-based Codes

• Fire-safety Engineering

• Fundamental thermodynamics

• Heat exchange during the fire process

• Skin burns

• Burning rate, energy release rate and design fires

• Proposal to Risk-based design fires

• Proposal to a Fire scale

• Material ignition and flame spread

• Fire dynamics in buildings

• Combustion products and toxic gases

• Smoke inhalation and respiratory physiology

• Combustion and natural fires

• Explosion theory

• Fire Chemistry

• Fire Extinction Chemistry and Physics

• Evacuation and human behaviour during a fire

• Sensitivity and risk analysis

• Fire Models

• Emission and Radiation Theory