Steel Buildings in Europe

Part 6: Fire Engineering 6 - v Contents Page No FOREWORD iii SUMMARY vi 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING 3 2.1 Definition of fire safety engineering 3 2.2 Objectives of fire safety 3 2.3 Approaches to structural fire engineering 5 3 FIRE PROTECTION SOLUTIONS 14 3.1 Active fire protection 14 3.2 Passive fire protection 15 3.3 Fire resisting construction 19 4 SIMPLE CALCULATION MODELS 26 4.1 Fire behaviour and thermal actions 26 4.2 Heat transfer 29 4.3 Structural Analysis 30 4.4 Simple structural fire design methods 31 5 TENSILE MEMBRANE ACTION 37 5.1 Cardington fire test 37 5.2 FRACOF fire tests 39 6 USE OF NATURAL FIRE EXPOSURE AND ADVANCED STRUCTURAL MODELLING 42 6.1 General 42 6.2 Modelling fire severity 42 6.3 Modelling heat transfer 43 6.4 Advanced structural models 43 6.5 Validation/verification of advanced models 44 6.6 Regulatory approval 44 REFERENCES 45 FURTHER READING 45 Worked Example: Fire safety strategies and design approach of steel floor beam 49