Building Fire Safety, Structural Fire Tests, and Performance Based Codes

Fire Safety

References 17–13 ire safety is an important concern in all types of construction. The high level of national concern for fire safety is reflected in limitations and design requirements in building codes. These code requirements are discussed in the context of fire safety design and evaluation in the initial section of this chapter. Since basic data on fire behavior of wood products are needed t...

Fire Safety Challenges in Hospital Safety Index (HSI)

Hospitals are a symbol of social welfare and the last refuge of patients, which is the most important issue of the health system. Patient safety is the first and most important issue for the health system.  Before COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined the Hospital Safety Index (HSI) to measure hospital preparedness for disasters. During the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals faced many ...

Three-Dimensional Fire Codes

Binary cyclic three–dimensional array codes that can correct three–dimensional bursts (or clusters ) of errors are considered. The class of binary cyclic three–dimensional burst–error–correcting array codes, called three–dimensional Fire codes, is constructed. Several important properties such as the burst–error–correcting capability and the positions of the parity–check symbols are presented. ...

Fire Whirls and Building Aerodynamics

Numerical modeling of the behavior of fire and smoke within proposed building atria have revealed the possible presence of violent fire whirls or fire tornadoes induced by an inadvertent combination of ventilation and exhaust openings. Such fire vortexes can accelerate combustion up to ten times that seen during conventional fires, rapidly move fire and debris across available evacuation routes...

Applying building information modeling to support fire safety management