Posts Tagged: fire protection engineering

A Building Evaluation Technique for Fire Suppression

Author: Robert C. Till
Date Published: 2000
Publisher: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Keywords: fire suppression, building evalution, building design, fire protection engineering, Initiative 15

Effect of Beamed, Sloped, and Sloped Beamed Ceilings on the Activation Time of a Residential Sprinkler

Author: Robert L. Vettori
Date Published: December 2003
Publisher: US Fire Administration/NIST
Keywords: fire protection engineering, automatic fire sprinklers, Initiative 15, residential fire sprinklers

Urban-wildland fires: on the ignition of surfaces by embers

Author: Manzello, Samuel L., Cleary, Thomas G., Shields, John R., and Yang, Jiann C
Date Published: Not Listed
Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keywords: surface ignition, wildland-urban interface fires, fire protection engineering, Initiative 15

The Role of Redundancy in Performance-Based Fire Safety Regulation

Author: Vincent Brannigan, Anthony Kilpatrick
Date Published: 2004
Publisher: INTERFLAM
Keywords: Initiative 15, redundancy, performance-based codes, fire/building codes, fire protection engineering

Estimates of the Operational Reliability of Fire Protection Systems

Author: Bukowski, R. W.; Budnick, E. K.; Schemel, C. F.
Date Published: October 1999
Publisher: Society of Fire Protection Engineers
Keywords: fire protection systems, fire protection engineering, Initiative 15

Using High Reliability Detection for Fire Service Response in Buildings

Author: Jones, W.W.; Bukowski, R.W.
Date Published: February 2001
Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keywords: fire information, fire detection system, fire protection engineering, Initiative 15, Initiative 8

Fire Experiments of Zoned Smoke Control at the Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC

Author: Klote, J. H
Date Published: April 1990
Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keywords: smoke control, smoke movement, fire protection engineering, Initiative 15

Design of Smoke Control Systems for Areas of Refuge

Author: Klote, J. H.
Date Published: March1993
Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keywords: smoke control, smoke movement, fire protection engineering, Initiative 15

Hazards Due to Smoke Migration Through Elevator Shafts. Volume 1. Analysis and Discussion

Author: Klote, J. H.
Date Published: June 2004
Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keywords: fire protection engineering, high-rise fires, elevators, smoke movement, environmental risks, Initiative 15, Initiative 2

Hazards Due to Smoke Migration Through Elevator Shafts. Volume 2. Results of Tenability Calculations

Author: Klote, J. H.
Date Published: June 2004
Publisher: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keywords: Initiative 15, Initiative 2, fire protection engineering, high-rise fires, elevators, smoke movement, environmental risks