Fire protection and safety

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

This monograph is written based on the author's research on the assessment, control, and repair of cracking of early-age concrete in the recent decade.

The volume explains how risk and decision-making analytics can be applied to the wicked problem of protecting infrastructure and society from extreme events.

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.

Intumescent Coating and Fire Protection of Steel Structures establishes the thermo insulation characteristics of intumescent coating under various fire and hydrothermal aging circumstances and shows how to predict the temperature elevation of steel structures protected with intumescent coatings in fires for avoiding structural damage.

This volume gathers the proceedings of the 17th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (17WCSI), held in Turin, Italy on September 11-15, 2022.

This important new manual goes beyond the published NFPA standards on installation of standpipe systems to include the rules in the International Building Code, municipal fire codes, the National Fire Code of Canada, and information on inspection, testing, and maintenance of standpipe systems.

This book focuses on some technical problems encountered in shield tunneling in hard-soft uneven stratum and extremely soft stratum, based on the recent shield tunneling engineering practice, and summarizes the achievements of shield tunneling in view of the technical problems from an overall and objective perspective.

This book addresses the performance of a multi-storey timber building subjected to a model fire that represents a real, potentially devastating internal fire.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

This book addresses fire safety of combustible facade systems which has gained much attention in recent times due to several major fire accidents across the world where combustible facade systems had a significant role in enhancing the growth of fire.

The tenth edition of Hall and Greeno's leading textbook has been reviewed and updated in relation to the latest building, wiring and water regulations, new technology and new legislation.

This book addresses various aspects of knowledge management and technological advances that are driving the ongoing industrial revolution.

This updated, second edition unveils the mystery of the tunnel fires, covering most of the issues in fire safety engineering in tunnels, clearly describes the phenomena related to tunnel fire safety, presents state-of-the-art research, and gives detailed solutions to these major issues.

This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals' fire safety in historic buildings.

This book systematically introduces the new technology used in the construction of underwater large slurry shields under complex conditions.

This book gathers proceedings of the 18th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (18WCSI), held in Antalya, Turkiye on November 6-10, 2023.

In Command of Guardians: Executive Servant Leadership for the Community of Responders, Second Edition spotlights the philosophy of servant leadership and offers a pathway for strengthening first responder organizations.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of deaths and injuries from residential fires as well as the most up to date information on evidence-based approaches to reduce this problem.

This book evaluates the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams, considering the effects of strong motion duration, mainshock-aftershock seismic sequence, and near-fault ground motion.

The Second Edition of this introduction to fire protection systems is completely revised and updated to offer the student, architect or engineer the basics of fire protection devices and equipment, and how they may be applied to any given project.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2018).

This book showcases the cross-disciplinary and "e;systemic"e; relationships among climate change, resilience, and cultural heritage.

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.

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires.

The tenth edition of Hall and Greeno's leading textbook has been reviewed and updated in relation to the latest building, wiring and water regulations, new technology and new legislation.

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, PRADS 2019, held in Yokohama, Japan, in September 2019.

This book presents the results of a novel investigation into building deterioration and defects in Malaysia's public schools.

In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.

The natural disasters are the killer agents which can/can't be predicted even though we have modern technology.

This book provides an understanding of people's accessibility needs, and the barriers that may affect people with different identities and circumstances (e.

This book examines key issues in improving the efficiency of small and medium power boiler units by adding control systems for the fuel combustion process.

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of 'behavioural safety' is overly person-focused.

This book highlights human behaviour and architectural considerations for prescriptive code requirements for emergency exits in heritage cultural centers.

This book systematically introduces the new technology used in the construction of underwater large slurry shields under complex conditions.

Protection against fire and prevention of explosion is vital in a modern industrial economy.

This book summarizes the latest advances in understanding chloride ingress and steel corrosion in concrete under service loads.

This book introduces the reader to the history, materials properties, and manufacturing methods of transparent wood biocomposites.

This book investigates the substructuring technology in structural health monitoring (SHM) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the present SHM methods.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of hazardous areas containing explosive gases, vapors, and combustible dust.

Major events notably the Broadgate fire in London, New York's World Trade Center collapse, and the Windsor Tower fire in Madrid as well as the enlightening studies at the Cardington fire research project have given international prominence to performance-based structural fire engineering.

This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan.

This book explores the major differences between the kinds of risk encountered in different sectors of industry - production (including agriculture) and services - and identifies the main features of accidents within different industries.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

This book explores recent developments in electrically conducting graphene-containing polymer composites for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and flame-retardant applications.

This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources.