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Buildings --- Fire prevention. --- Protection. --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Damage prevention
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This important study focuses on the way in which structures and materials can be best designed to absorb kinetic energy in a controllable and predictable manner. Understanding of energy absorption of structures and materials is important in calculating the damage to structures caused by accidental collision, assessing the residual strength of structures after initial damage and in designing packaging to protect its contents in the event of impact. Whilst a great deal of recent research has taken place into the energy absorption behaviour of structures and materials and significant progress has been made, this knowledge is diffuse and widely scattered. This book offers a synthesis of the most recent developments and forms a detailed and comprehensive view of the area. It is an essential reference for all engineers concerned with materials engineering in relation to the theory of plasticity, structural mechanics and impact dynamics.
Strength of materials. --- Structural dynamics. --- Engineering --- Automobile and Transportation --- Buildings --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Building dynamics --- Dynamics, Structural --- Structural vibration --- Strains and stresses --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Architectural engineering --- Engineering, Architectural --- Materials, Strength of --- Resistance of materials --- Building materials --- Flexure --- Mechanics --- Testing --- Elasticity --- Graphic statics --- Protection. --- Damage prevention --- Impact
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Buildings --- Risk assessment --- Building failures --- Civil Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Protection --- Risk assessment. --- Building failures. --- Protection. --- Collapse of buildings --- Analysis, Risk --- Assessment, Risk --- Risk analysis --- Risk evaluation --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Damage prevention --- Building --- Disasters --- Structural failures --- Evaluation --- Accidents
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This book provides an overview of the initiation of combustion processes of polymeric materials. It presents physicochemical processes associated with heating as well as numerical methods for initiation parameter calculation. In addition, the book describes thermal degradation of polymers and the effect of an incident heat flux on initiation time. It then highlights the most commonly used devices for measuring the time to ignition using external heat sources. The target group of this book are scientists and researchers dealing with materials combustion and also graduates and practitioners focused on fire protection.
Polymers --- Fire testing. --- Fires and fire prevention. --- Polymere --- Polymeride --- Polymers and polymerization --- Macromolecules --- Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Polymers. --- Materials science. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Materials Science. --- Protection. --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Damage prevention
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This book develops several novel foam-filled structures and steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich structures, which provides more alternatives for ensuring the safety of buildings and infrastructures under extreme loading, like impact and blast. In the first part of this book, the aluminium foam- and polyurethane foam-filled structures have been developed for dissipating impact and blast energy. Experimental and numerical studies have been conducted to obtain their behaviours under impact loading. In addition, analytical models have also been proposed to assess their energy absorption performances and facilitate the impact and blast design when using the proposed foam-filled structures. In the second part of this book, SCS sandwich structures with novel shear connectors have been developed and their behaviours under impact and blast loading have been experimentally, numerically and analytical studied. Analytical models for predicting the impact and blast responses of SCS sandwich structures have also been developed. In the third part of this book, a new steel-polyurethane foam-steel-concrete-steel (SPUFSCS) panel (i.e. the combination of foam material and SCS panel) has been developed to achieve a higher impact resistant capacity. Owing to the increasing impact and blast threats on buildings and infrastructures, the studies presented in this book are of significant importance for providing several new solutions for impact and blast enhancement. .
Mechanical engineering. --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering --- Machinery --- Steam engineering --- Civil engineering. --- Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Civil Engineering. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Engineering Mechanics. --- Protection. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering mathematics --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Public works --- Damage prevention --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention
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This Handbook is focused on structural resilience in the event of fire. It serves as a single point of reference for practicing structural and fire protection engineers on the topic of structural fire safety. It is also stands as a key point of reference for university students engaged with structural fire engineering. Maximizes reader understanding of the concepts of structural fire safety and why/how they emerged and evolved over time Discusses what design fire models exist, when they might be chosen and why Details how different materials respond to fire and the methods that can be employed to attempt to ensure adequate structural response in fire Provides guidance concerning how solutions can be adequately implemented during the construction process Reviews the means by which post-fire performance can be interrogated and under what circumstances different structural forms can or cannot be re-instated.
Fire prevention --- Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Building materials. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Solids. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Structural Materials. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Protection. --- Solid state physics --- Transparent solids --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Damage prevention --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention
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This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022). It focuses on the latest research developments in structural engineering, structural health monitoring, rehabilitation and retrofitting of structures, geotechnical engineering, and earthquake-resistant structures. The book also covers the latest innovations in building repair and maintenance, AI and blockchain in structural engineering, advancements in the design of earthquake-resistant structures, and sustainable materials for rehabilitation and retrofitting. The contents of this book are useful for researchers and professionals working in structural and geotechnical engineering and allied areas.
Engineering geology. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Building materials. --- Geoengineering. --- Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Building Materials. --- Protection. --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Engineering --- Civil engineering --- Geology, Economic --- Damage prevention --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Geology
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of hazardous areas containing explosive gases, vapors, and combustible dust. It also discusses about the different types of protection techniques used in explosion-proof electrical equipment. This book further provides guidance on how to deal with electrical explosions caused by fires due to arcs and sparks caused by a failure in the design, manufacture, selection, installation, or maintenance of electrical equipment. Among the topics covered in this book are overview of hazardous areas, various types of protection available, mechanisms for explosion pressure to build inside flameproof enclosures, concept of preventing explosions in flammable and dusty environments, unique features of explosion-proof motors, process of testing and certifying explosion-proof equipment in India and abroad, and mechanisms for the initiation and prevention of explosions resulting from non-electric sources. The book also discusses topics such as the selection, installation, inspection, and maintenance of electrical equipment. In addition, this book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in the fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, mining engineering, and testing laboratories that test and certify explosion-proof equipment.
Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Electric machinery. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Electrical Machines. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Protection. --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Electromechanical devices --- Machinery --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Damage prevention --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention
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This book provides an analysis of the origin and effect of human errors in engineering. Using cases from everyday construction and large-scale accidents, the circumstances associated with the creation of errors are illustrated, along with strategies for their prevention, with the goal to eventually minimize cost overruns, delays, and accidents. The book features a discussion of the circumstances related to error proneness, the review of some sixty mishaps or near misses from real-life construction, the systematic analysis of 238 large-scale accidents in engineering systems, the perspective of psychology on the origin of faulty human performance, and a review of the relation of management to error proneness.
Construction industry --- Risk management. --- Insurance --- Management --- Building industry --- Home building industry --- Building --- Accidents --- Prevention. --- Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Financial risk management. --- Construction Management. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- IT Risk Management. --- Risk Management. --- Management. --- Protection. --- Risk management --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Damage prevention --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention
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This book offers an overview of European testing methods for fire protection materials. Used in a broad range of applications, these materials are designed to ensure that fires do not occur, or that their effects are combated to the greatest extent possible. The book deals with methods not only for the construction industry but also, for example, for furniture / interior furnishings, plastics, and clothing, including special-purpose clothing for firefighters and rescuers, explosive mixtures, the intensity of smoke, etc. This comprehensive book examines standardized testing methods, while also assessing large-scale tests and specialized non-standardized tests and providing information on various materials and their behavior when exposed to flame.
Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Timber. --- Building materials. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Protection. --- Design and construction. --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Forest production --- Building materials --- Forest products --- Lumber trade --- Forests and forestry --- Lumber --- Tree farms --- Trees --- Wood --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Damage prevention --- Building, Fireproof.
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