Temperature Calculation in Fire Safety Engineering

This book provides a consistent scientific background toengineering calculation methods applicable to analyses of materialsreaction-to-fire, as well as fire resistance of structures. Several new andunique formulas and diagrams which facilitate calculations are presented. Itfocuses on problems involving high temperature conditions and, in particular, definesboundary conditions in a suitable way for calculations. A large portion of thebook is devoted to boundary conditions and measurements of thermal exposure byradiation and convection. The concepts and theories of adiabatic surfacetemperature and measurements of temperature with plate thermometers arethoroughly explained.

Also presented is a renewed method for modeling compartmentfires, with the resulting simple and accurate prediction tools for both pre-and post-flashover fires. The final chapters deal with temperature calculationsin steel, concrete and timber structures exposed to standard time-temperaturefire curves. Useful temperature calculation tools are included, and severalexamples demonstrate how the finite element code TASEF can be used to calculatetemperature in various configurations. 

TemperatureCalculation in Fire Safety Engineering is intended for researchers,students, teachers, and consultants in fire safety engineering. It is alsosuitable for others interested in analyzing and understanding fire, firedynamics, and temperature development. Review questions and exercises areprovided for instructor use.

UlfWickstrom is a professor at the Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.He was the director of the fire research laboratory of SP Technical ResearchInstitute of Sweden between 1986 and 2010.?ProfessorWickstrom has a PhD in fire technology from the Lund University of Technology anda master of science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He hasfor several years been active in international fire safety standardizationwhere he has introduced many concepts based on his research such as the plate thermometer for measuringtemperature and radiation, parametricfire curves of compartment fires, and shadoweffects for calculating steel temperatures. He is also the originator of thenotation adiabatic surface temperature whichis now being used increasingly by modellers to express fire exposure. Hedeveloped the well-known computer code TASEF for calculating temperature infire exposed materials, composites and structures.