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Fire Safety

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 030-0927/04
Abbreviation PB
Course title Fire Safety
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Fire Protection
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Kučera, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The task of fire safety is to prevent loss of life and health of persons and loss of property. It is mainly about creating conditions for safe evacuation from a burning or fire-endangered building, and preventing the spread of fire inside and outside the building and creating conditions for effective intervention of fire brigades. The construction part of the building must be dimensioned for the expected effects of fire. The focus of the development of PBS is the specification of expected effects of fires and determination of optimal fire prevention measures, which includes: fire prevention, fire risk of fully developed fire, dimensioning of building components and construction systems for expected thermal stress, optimization of fire protection measures, spread of combustion products in object, movement of persons during evacuation, conditions of fire spread outside the building object, intervention routes and conditions of effective fire intervention.

Literature

Stollard, P. Fire from First Principles - A Design Guide to International Building Fire Safety. Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Buchanan, A.H., Abu, A.K. Structural Design for Fire Safety (2nd Edition). John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Purkiss, J.A., Li, L. Fire Safety Engineering – Design of Structures (3rd Edition). CRC Press, 2013.

Advised literature

Cote, A. E. (editor in chief) Fire Protection Handbook. 20th Edition, Volumes I & II, USA: National Fire Protection Association, 2008.
Hurley, M.J. (editor in chief) The SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. 5th Edition, USA: Springer 2015.