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Upto recently the main approach to Fire Safety Engineering has been on an adhoc basis in that little planning has been done to minimise the required fire endurance period by considering, say, compartmentation, or fire load or indeed the detail method of construction at the incipient planning stage. This has been partly due to the use of a Regulatory Approach and not to the use of calculation methods.
The paper considers two examples, that of an isostatic structural element within a small fire compartment before considering any constraints acting on the system. These constraints may take the form of either acceptable failure risks or be of an economic or practical nature. The paper concludes by considering a general system for structural fire safety engineering.
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Purkiss, J.A. (1988). A Systems Approach for Fire Safety Engineering. In: Structural Safety Evaluation Based on System Identification Approaches. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05657-7_19
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