Fire Safety and Concrete Structures

Preamble......Page 7
A. Introduction......Page 11
1. Purpose of fire safety: protection of persons and goods ......Page 14
2.3. Nominal curves – the ISO curve......Page 16
2.4. Reaction and fire resistance......Page 17
2.4.1. The reaction to fire of construction products - Class......Page 18
2.4.2. Reaction to fire – Attestation of conformity......Page 19
2.4.3 Fire resistance of structural elements......Page 20
3.1.1. European directives......Page 22
3.1.2. The Eurocodes......Page 23
3.2.2.1. Field of application and reference date......Page 24
3.2.2.2. Royal Decree (RD) of 1997......Page 25
3.2.2.4.1. Industrial buildings......Page 26
3.2.4. Fire detector regulation for residential accommodatio......Page 27
3.2.5. Old buildings......Page 28
4.2.1. Passive protective measures - compartmentalisation......Page 29
4.2.2. Active protective measures......Page 31
4.2.3. Human behaviour......Page 33
5.2.1. The fire load and rate of heat release (RHR)......Page 36
5.2.3. Thermal characteristics of walls......Page 38
5.3. Fire severity......Page 39
6.2.2. Parametric curves......Page 40
6.2.6. Which curve, what model?......Page 41
7.1. Physical and chemical phenomena in concrete......Page 43
7.2.1. Normal concrete......Page 45
7.2.3. High-strength concretes......Page 47
7.2.5. Steel......Page 48
7.2.6. Comparison of the mechanical characteristics of steel......Page 50
8.1.1. Three methods, three levels......Page 51
8.1.2.2. Reading the tables......Page 52
8.1.2.3. Axis distance......Page 53
8.1.2.4. Isostatic girders......Page 54
8.1.2.7. Columns......Page 55
8.2. Fire Safety Engineering......Page 56
8.3.2.2. Semi-quantitative methods......Page 62
8.3.2.3. Quantitative methods......Page 63
8.4.1. Classification of activities and fire risks for indus......Page 64
8.4.2. Warehouse fires......Page 65
8.5. Tunnels......Page 71
1.1. What happened in Madrid?......Page 73
1.2. The Trois Fontaines viaduct......Page 75
2. Building design......Page 76
3.1. Ghent 1974......Page 77
3.2. Cardington 2001......Page 78
2. Repair options......Page 79
Appendix 1 - Discussion on sprinkler systems......Page 81
1. General bibliography......Page 85
3. Regulations......Page 87