1st Edition

Fire Safety Design for Tall Buildings

By Feng Fu Copyright 2021
250 Pages 30 Color & 93 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

250 Pages 30 Color & 93 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

250 Pages 30 Color & 93 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

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. It covers almost all aspects of fire safety design that an engineer or an architect might encounter—such as performance-based design and the basic principles of fire... Read more

1 Introduction

2 Regulatory requirements and basic fire safety

design principles

3 Fundamentals of fire and fire safety design

4 Structural fire design principles for tall buildings

5 Typical fire safety design strategy for tall buildings

6 Fire analysis and modeling

7 Preventing fire-induced collapse of tall buildings

8 New technologies and machine learning in fire

safety design

9 Post-fire damage assessment

Biography

Dr. Feng Fu worked for several world-leading consultancy companies including WSP Group, where he was one of the key team members in structural fire design of the tallest building in Western Europe, the Shard. He serves for two building design standard committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and also acts as an associate editor and editorial board member for three international journals, He published more than 100 technical papers and three textbooks including Structural Analysis and Design to Prevent Disproportionate Collapse (CRC Press, 2016).