While occupants are evacuating from the fire scene, firefighters are entering life-threatening
environments, exposed to hot and toxic fire smoke and risks of structural failures or …

Abstract The Performance-Based Design approach provides a goal-oriented process to
support safe, innovative, and resilient structural fire designs. However, adoption of this …

In modern buildings, false ceilings are widely used for building services systems and
aesthetic purposes, but they also pose challenges in terms of fire safety. A fire accident …

Fire can damage structures severely and even cause the building collapse. Structural and
fire engineers must carry out a comprehensive forensic investigation of major structural …

More than 1300 new buildings over 200 m tall have been built since the year 2000,
representing 80% of the total number of supertall buildings globally. The proliferation of such …

The collapse of several tall composite buildings over the last two decades has shown that
the performance of tall, composite and complex buildings in fire is a necessary design …

Analytical models and the prediction of accidents and their consequences are important
tools for preventing accidents in the industry. Therefore, the present study was conducted to …

Although the performance of bridge structures under prescriptive fire scenarios has been the
subject of numerous studies, performance-based approaches are yet to be developed to …

Fire accidents in buildings are occurring and claiming thousands of lives each year. Due to
various architectural designs, fire hazards would be unique to each building layout. This …

In order to change the status quo of lacking holistic and intuitive research on building energy
efficiency in China, an online virtual energy‐saving and environment‐friendly building …