Performance-Based Structural Fire Safety
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 20, Issue 1
Abstract
The ability to understand the performance of building structures under fire exposure and to make informed engineering design decisions based on analysis rather than simply applying prescriptive codes is a growing area of interest. This paper summarizes recent research and provides a possible approach to integrating fire safety engineering into the design process for structural framing systems. Performance-based design of fire-safe structures is defined in terms of five activities, and a series of flowcharts organizes these activities in terms of sublevel functions and their interrelationships. The flowcharts also help to identify informational needs critical to performance-based structural fire safety and to develop an understanding of the role of the fire protection engineer.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 20 • Issue 1 • February 2006
Pages: 45 - 53
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© 2006 ASCE.
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Received: Jun 21, 2004
Accepted: Sep 14, 2004
Published online: Feb 1, 2006
Published in print: Feb 2006
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