Fire protection and safety

?

This groundbreaking book contains a broad yet detailed coverage of the major aspects of fire engineering.

"e;Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting"e; from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them (National Geographic Adventure).

This is the foremost guide to hydraulically designing sprinkler systems for commercial and residential buildings.

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

This book offers an overview of European testing methods for fire protection materials.

This book delves into the transformative potential of neuromorphic computing within the field of civil engineering, specifically focusing on its application to disaster management.

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 on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires.

This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc.

This book examines the fire-resistant design of fixed offshore platforms.

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 offers meaningful insights into an impending challenge for the energy industry, namely the increasing role of asset management amongst the utilities' core operations.

This book provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

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 provides the latest research and technology advances in building fire safety and smart firefighting.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers at the XXIV International Scientific Conference "e;Construction: The Formation of Living Environment"e;, held in Moscow, Russia on April 22-24, 2021.

The fundamental purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness about environmental impacts of fire and fire suppression, primarily within the fire engineering and firefighting communities, but also within the environmental engineering and planning disciplines.

This book comprises selected papers on advances in the field of health and environment safety that were presented at the International Conference on Advances in the field of Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, Allied sciences and engineering (HSFEA 2020).

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences 2020.

Data Driven Methods for Civil Structural Health Monitoring and Resilience: Latest Developments and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of data-driven methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) and resilience of civil engineering structures, mostly based on artificial intelligence or other advanced data science techniques.

This book provides essential understanding of flows in fire and smoke dynamics in enclosures, covering combustion, heat transfer and fire suppression in more detail than other introductory books.

International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety each year.

This proceedings volume includes articles presented during the Advanced Research Workshop on Soft Target Protection.

This book discusses the different energy sources bringing about fires, explosions, and detonations in combustibles under different levels of confinement.

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 book provides readers an approach to overall fire and life-life design of high-rise buildings in a way that meets all stakeholders' objectives.

This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake.

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

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

This book belongs to the field of mine safety, and it first introduces the severity of mine fire and the impact of mine fire on air flow through practical cases, and then leads to the most important control technology of underground air flow during fire.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION"e;Considerable effort has gone into the study of various aspects of flammability and of various plastic materials, so that these materials which are proving so useful to man will always be used in ways which will not compromise his safety.

This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK.

Brandschutz ist nicht nur gefordert und somit wichtig, nein – Brandschutz kann auch richtig interessant sein und Spaß machen!

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched information regarding the subject of fire safety and the associated responsibilities, obligations and rights.

The book supplements Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis by providing the failure rate data needed to perform a chemical process quantitative risk analysis.

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

Immer die richtige AntwortÜber 800 Prüfungsfragen und Antworten machen das notwendige Wissen für angehende Brandschutzbeauftragte transparent.

Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a new chapter on life safety elements was added to the second edition).

This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc.

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 book provides a comprehensive exploration of health and safety in the workplace, focusing on critical safety design, functional safety, and applying risk analysis.

This book is intended to be used as a textbook in undergraduate civil engineering and construction courses to introduce cutting edge mechanical, electrical, and computer science topics that are needed for civil and construction engineers to collaborate in inter-disciplinary automation projects.

This book highlights cutting-edge applications of machine learning techniques for disaster management by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting hydro-meteorological variables.

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 consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.

This book presents experimental results and theoretical advances in the field of ultra-low-cycle fatigue failure of metal structures under strong earthquakes, where the dominant failure mechanism is ductile fracture.