BSI PD ISO/TR 24679-4:2017
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Fire safety engineering. Performance of structures in fire – Example of a fifteen-storey steel-framed office building
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| BSI | 2017 | 60 |
This document provides a fire engineering application relative to the fire resistance assessment of a fifteen-storey steel framed building following the methodology given in ISO 24679‑1 . This document describes the adopted process which follows the same step by step procedure as that provided in ISO 24679‑1 . The annexes of this document present the detailed assessment results obtained for the most severe fire scenarios on the basis of the outcome of this specific fire safety engineering procedure for the building.
The fire safety engineering applied in this example to the office building with respect to its fire resistance considers specific design fire scenarios as well as the corresponding fire development. It takes into account fully-developed compartment fires. In realistic situations, activation of fire suppression systems and/or intervention of fire brigade are expected, but their beneficial effects are not taken into account. It should be noted that these severe fire scenarios have been selected for fire resistance purposes.
Global structural behaviour is not explicitly considered, but implicitly included in the calculation formulae. Since the building of the example is located in a seismic region, principal structural elements are rigidly connected to each other. Load redistribution from heated elements to cold surrounding elements exists, but it’s not taken into account in the design calculations. By this approach, design is conservative, while the process of safety checking is greatly simplified and clear. As a result, all the calculations were carried out by explicit algebraic formulae.
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 2 | National foreword |
| 6 | Foreword |
| 7 | Introduction |
| 9 | 1 Scope 2 Normative references |
| 10 | 3 Terms and definitions 4 Symbols |
| 11 | 5 Design strategy for fire safety of structures 6 Quantification of the performance of structures in fire 6.1 General |
| 12 | 6.2 Step 1: Scope of the project for fire safety of structures 6.2.1 Built environment characteristics |
| 13 | 6.2.2 Fuel load |
| 14 | 6.2.3 Mechanical actions |
| 15 | 6.3 Step 2: Identify objectives, functional requirements and performance criteria for fire safety of structures 6.4 Step 3: Trial design plan for fire safety of structures |
| 16 | 6.5 Step 4: Design fire scenarios and design fires 6.5.1 Design fire scenarios |
| 17 | 6.5.2 Design fires (thermal actions) |
| 18 | 6.6 Step 5: Thermal response of the structure 6.6.1 Steel columns and beams |
| 20 | 6.6.2 Other construction elements 6.7 Step 6: Mechanical response of the structure 6.7.1 Steel columns |
| 21 | 6.7.2 Steel beams |
| 22 | 6.8 Step 7: Assessment against the fire safety objectives 6.9 Step 8: Documentation of the design for fire safety of structures |
| 23 | 6.10 Factors and influences to be considered in the quantification process 6.10.1 Thermal properties 6.10.2 Mechanical strength of steel material 6.10.3 Uncertainty of material properties 7 Guidance on use of engineering methods |
| 24 | Annex A (informative) Building and framing design |
| 34 | Annex B (informative) Fuel and structural load |
| 39 | Annex C (informative) Fire temperatures |
| 44 | Annex D (informative) Maximum temperature of insulated steel elements |
| 50 | Annex E (informative) Critical temperature of steel columns, girders and beams |
| 57 | Bibliography |
