Leo Razdolsky ... 350 pages - Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press; 1st edition (August, 2014) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 110703874X - ISBN-13: 978-1107038745 ...
In the structural design of airframes and buildings, probability-based
procedures are used to mitigate the risk of failure as well as produce
cost-effective designs. This book introduces the subject of
probabilistic analysis to structural and fire protection engineers and
can also be used as a reference to guide those applying this technology.
In addition to providing an understanding of how fire affects
structures and how to optimize the performance of structural framing
systems, Probability-Based Structural Fire Load provides guidance for
design professionals and is a resource for educators. The goal of this
book is to bridge the gap between prescriptive and probability-based
performance design methods and to simplify very complex and
comprehensive computer analyses to the point that stochastic structural
fire loads have a simple, approximate analytical expression that can be
used in structural analysis and design on a day-to-day basis. Numerous
practical examples are presented in step-by-step computational form.