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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
JARO, ILOILO CITY 5000 PHILIPPINES
Tel.No. 3291971 TO 79 local 1084
Lecture Fire Engineering is the application of scientific and engineering principles, rules (codes),
Notes: and expert judgement, based on an understanding of the phenomena and effects of fire and of
the reaction and behaviour of people to fire, to protect people, property and the environment
from the destructive effects of fire.
Thus, at the end of the day the main aim of structural fire engineering is to primarily
ensure the safety of building occupants, with the protection of property and good as a secondary
objective. However, with the increasing influence of insurance companies in building
development the protection of assets is becoming more and more important.
However, to consider all aspects of fire design is a complex and multi-disciplinary task,
typically left for specialists. It requires the consideration of “active and passive measures,
movement of smoke and fire, detection systems, fire safety management, structural response and
risk analysis”
REFLECTIONS: (Please answer the following questions, whnever applicable and as concise as
possible.)
1. What particular field/s of specialization in Civil Engineering was the
seminar or training about?
x Structural Engineering Transporation Engineering
A challenge with structural fire engineering is being able to define failure. Since it would be
acceptable for a structure to suffer some damage in a large fire it makes it very difficult to know what
fire limit state to design a building to. In some structures beams and columns have buckled during
real fires but floors remained in position such that people could get out and the structures didn’t
collapse – so would those be failures or not?