A review of the current situation and development of fire safety design for steel structures in China is given in this paper. Several codes and specifications used for fire safety design in China are introduced, and the present design methods are summarized. Then some research achievements on the behavior of steel structures at elevated temperature are presented. The achievements include materi...

Achievement of fire safety objectives in buildings for the lives, property conservation and business continuity is a collective responsibility all stakeholder, its depends on level knowledge awareness concern stakeholders. Therefore, this research was conducted to determine training needs practitioners building managers adequate occupants Nigeria. The adopted questionnaires survey design. popul...

Fire safety is considered as one of the major objectives in design, construction and specially tunnel operation. The hot and toxic smoke propagation is a fundamental reason of human losses during a fire inside the tunnels. Therefore, an exact analytical investigation on the probable fire scenarios and its destructive effects for passengers, vehicles and structure are the main part of the tunnel...

In the past, HSE’s Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) has studied the performance of a variety of passive fire protection (PFP) materials in protecting a part-filled LPG tank subjected to hydrocarbon pool fire engulfment. However, this is only one potential fire incident scenario that can threaten a process vessel; another is a jet fire, perhaps resulting from an ignited release from a leaking ...

Evacuation models have been playing an important function in the transition process from prescriptive fire safety codes to performance-based ones over the last three decades. In fact, such models became also useful tools in different tasks within fire safety engineering field, such as fire risks assessment and fire investigation. However, there are some difficulties in this process when using t...

A fire hazard assessment was conducted on private, developed lots in South Lake Tahoe, a high fire hazard urban-wildland interface community in Northern California. Fire hazard was assessed in terms of the minimum standards set forth in the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Standard 299 and homeowner practices such as compliance with the fire safety law PRC 4291, construction materi...