Material Properties of Steel in Fire Conditions
Material Properties of Steel in Fire Conditions

Author: Weiyong Wang

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-11-10

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0128133031

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Material Properties of Steel Fire Conditions is a major new contribution on how to understand the material properties of steel in fires. The application of new types of steel and development of sophisticated codes of practice has grown dramatically in recent years, making this a timely resource on the topic. Under fire conditions, knowing the material properties of steel is essential in the fire resistance design of steel structures, such as in Eurocode3. This book shows that the reduction factors of mechanical properties of different steels are quite different. In recent years, the authors of this book have carried out significant testing on the material properties of several types of steels, such as Q460 steel, Q690 steel and A992 steel, etc. Users will find this new test data on the material properties of steel with temperature useful in evaluating the fire resistance of steel structures in their own projects. Deals with the material properties of steels in fire conditions, including thermal properties and mechanical properties, such as thermal conductivity, strength, elastic modulus and creep behavior Provides basic knowledge to perform fire resistance design of steel structures Presents information useful to designers, researches and students who must conduct fire resistance design or perform structural analyses on high strength steel structures

Wildfire
Wildfire

Author: Ferin Davis Anderson

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books TM

Published: 2024-04-02

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Wildfire is a natural process that takes place in forests and grasslands all over the world. In dry conditions, a single spark can rapidly transform into flames that stretch for miles and sweep across the landscape, burning away everything in their path. Although commonly seen as destructive and deadly, fire is a necessary part of ecosystems; they refresh the land and allow for new plant growth. Environmental scientist Ferin Davis Anderson and author Stephanie Sammartino McPherson examine how Indigenous people, farmers, and forestry departments have used fire to manage resources; why climate change is impacting the frequency and intensity of wildfires; and what the future of fire might look like.

Crew Cohesion, Wildland Fire Transition, and Fatalities
Crew Cohesion, Wildland Fire Transition, and Fatalities

Author: Jon J. Driessen

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13:

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Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion among crews (intercrew cohesion). Cohesion is a way of describing how closely people feel they are tied to a group. Studies of field crews in the Forest Service have shown that the less cohesion crews had, the more likely they were to be involved in accidents. Meanwhile, studies of wildland firefighter fatalities during the 1990s have shown that nearly threefourths of the fatalities occurred when fires were making the transition from relatively small to relatively large fires, or shortly after they had become relatively large fires. The transition is often sudden, when it is described as a "blow up." Driessen recommends studies that would allow the different types of transition fires to be classified. This classification system would allow crew leaders and fire managers to communicate clearly when fires are making the transition from relatively small fires to relatively large fires. The studies would also identify tactics that successful crew leaders use to build the essential level of crew cohesion when fires are in transition.

Wildfire & Steel
Wildfire & Steel

Author: J.J. Green

Publisher: Lone Wolf Press

Published: 2023-10-11

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13:

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Dark magic meets galactic warfare. Carina Lin has found her long-lost mage kindred, but her joy is tempered with pain. One of her half-siblings is a dark mage who is planning to lead a powerful clan to galactic domination. Only mages can prevent the horrors that are about to unfold, but Carina faces an impossible dilemma: should she protect her family or defeat her evil half-brother? Her decision leads her to discover secrets about mages she never imagined. Wildfire and Steel is book three in the dark, exciting space fantasy series, Star Mage Saga.

Reliability of Steel Columns Protected by Intumescent Coatings Subjected to Natural Fires
Reliability of Steel Columns Protected by Intumescent Coatings Subjected to Natural Fires

Author: Chao Zhang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-25

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 3662463792

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This thesis studied the effect of aging of intumescent coatings (ICs) on the reliability of protected steel columns in fire condition and developed a probabilistic approach to assess the service life of ICs applied on steel columns. In the study, Monte Carlo simulations were conducted to obtain the reliability index or failure probability of steel columns protected by ICs subjected to compartment fires. The effect of aging of intumescent coatings on the failure probability of protected steel columns was investigated by using variable insulation property of intumescent coatings in the simulation. The test data on aging effect on insulation property of intumescent coatings from literature was used. Based on the reliability analysis, a probabilistic approach is given to determine the service life of intumescent coatings for steel columns. In that approach, the failure probability of the protected steel columns is compared with the target probability of the structural fire design. The approach can also be used for probabilistic analysis of steel columns protected by conventional inert fire protection materials.