Fire-safety engineering and performance-based codes

Fire-safety Engineering is written as a textbook for Engineering students at universities and other institutions of higher education that teach in the area of fire. The book can also be used as a work of reference for consulting engineers, Building product manufacturers, contractors, building project
administrators, etc.

The book deals with the following topics:

· Historical presentation on the subject of fire
· Legislation and building project administration
· European fire standardization
· Passive and active fire protection
· Performance-based Codes
· Fire-safety Engineering
· Fundamental thermodynamics
· Heat exchange during the fire process
· Skin burns
· Burning rate, energy release rate and design fires
· Proposal to Risk-based design fires
· Proposal to a Fire scale
· Material ignition and flame spread
· Fire dynamics in buildings
· Combustion products and toxic gases
· Smoke inhalation and respiratory physiology
· Combustion and natural fires
· Explosion theory
· Fire Chemistry
· Fire Extinction Chemistry and Physics
· Evacuation and human behaviour during a fire
· Sensitivity and risk analysis
· Fire Models
· Emission and Radiation Theory