Fire protection and safety

This book introduces details of inspection criteria and inspection techniques, which are widely recognized by the marine construction industry as a reliable means of inspection of structure members and their welds during the construction of surface vessels and other related marine and offshore structures.

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Hazard.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023) hosted under the aegis of the Group of Twenty (G20) and Civil 20 (C20) at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India.

Dieses Fachbuch stellt zusammenfassend die Grundlagen des nicht-elektrischen Explosionsschutzes dar.

This book gathers the best peer-reviewed papers presented at the Italian Concrete Days national conference, held in Rome, Italy, on October 27-28, 2016.

This book provides an essential reference on the current state of the art in this field covering topics as diverse as physics, chemistry, toxicology and human behaviour.

This book presents articles from The 16th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 2019, held in Brisbane, Australia.

This book covers artificial intelligence and ubiquitous cities.

The world has spent the majority of 2020 enduring an unpreceded crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chemische Sachverhalte, die in Feuerwehr-Lehrgängen vermittelt werden, sind oftmals "isolierte Fakten".

Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings provides structural engineers, architects, and students with a systematic introduction to fire safety design for tall buildings based on current analysis methods, design guidelines, and codes.

This book contains diverse topics relevant to earthquake engineering and technology.

This book explores methods for managing uncertainty in reservoir characterization and optimization.

Safety Rebels: Real-World Transformations in Health and Safety discusses the pragmatic experiences of over 30 safety professionals worldwide who managed to positively transform safety within their organizations.

Dieses Fachbuch erklärt die Planung, den Bau und erläutert die Vorschriften für Flucht- und Rettungswege.

A panel of experts appointed by the National Research Council assessed the scientific and technical work of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Finalist for the Western Writers of the West Spur AwardA practical guide for living with wildfire, including essential history and science, actions you can take to protect your home, and guiding principles for life in an increasingly fiery future.

This book provides the latest developments on safety practices utilized in composite manufacturing facilities for students, workers, engineers, and other participants.

This book mainly introduces the research overview, research results and follow-up prospects of "e;Unconventional Emergency Management Research"e;, a major research plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as the Plan).

Safety of RMAA works is an almost uncharted topic of rising importance internationally.

The fast and easy way to score your best on the Firefighter Exam In addition to physical tests of strength, agility, and coordination, firefighters must also pass a difficult written test that requires serious preparation to fare well, and many applicants fail to succeed.

This book compares technical information of various fire retardant coatings for electric cables.

This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts from the field of Wood Science & Fire.

This book highlights the residual strength of the CFDST column, that can be used to determine the most suitable repair method in order to retrofit the column.

The book provides practical recommendations for creation of fire retardant materials with an increased service life.

This popular safety best-seller is designed to help the user quantify the expected damage of potential fire and explosion incidents in realistic terms, identify the equipment likely to contribute to the creation or escalation of an incident, and communicate the fire and explosion risk potential to management.

This companion to the renowned International Health and Safety at Work textbook by Hughes and Ferrett is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.

This book provides guidance and insight into the development process for safety indicators to comply with general classification rule requirements.

What is BIM and how does it affect the health and safety professional?

This book provides insight on how disaster risk management can increase the resilience of society to various natural hazards.

This updated edition retains its introduction to applied fundamental statistics, probability, reliability, and decision theory as these pertain to problems in Civil Engineering.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures.

This Handbook is focused on structural resilience in the event of fire.

The book presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and electric lighting of buildings, sound transmission in building structures and protection against noise, the occurrence and spread of fires in buildings and the thermal response of cities.

This thesis details the novel preparation methods and the improved properties of two-dimentional (2D) black phosphorene (BP) and the polymer nanocomposites.

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of the UK.

This single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event.

This textbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail.

When health and safety regulatory frameworks took their present form in the 1970s, they were seen as a triumph of welfare state intervention.

This monograph discusses fire hazard and fire resistance in wooden structures with a long duration of operation.

This book covers artificial intelligence and ubiquitous cities.

Extensively using experimental and numerical illustrations, CombustionPhenomena: Selected Mechanisms of Flame Formation, Propagation, and Extinction provides a comprehensive survey of the fundamental processes of flame formation, propagation, and extinction.

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design.

This book highlights the utilization of biomaterials as emerging suitable and effective flame retardants (FRs) to replace most of the conventional FRs (e.

The new edition of the Building Regulations Pocket Book has been fully updated with recent changes to the UK Building Regulations and Planning Law.

This book is an authoritative account of the latest developments in fire performance and fire resistant design of thin-walled steel structures.

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Designing structures to withstand the effects of fire is challenging, and requires a series of complex design decisions.