Fire safety engineering : design of structures / John A. Purkiss.

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Edition:2nd ed.
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Fire safety engineering
  • Ch. 2. Design philosophies
  • Ch. 3. Prescriptive approach
  • Ch. 4. Behaviour of natural fires
  • Ch. 5. Properties of materials at elevated temperatures
  • Ch. 6. Calculation approach
  • Ch. 7. Design of concrete elements
  • Ch. 8. Design of steel elements
  • Ch. 9. Composite construction
  • Ch. 10. Design of timber elements
  • Ch. 11. Masonry, aluminium, plastics and glass
  • Ch. 12. Frames
  • Ch. 13. Assessment and repair of fire-damaged structures
  • Ch. 14. Postscript.