Undergraduate Course: Models for Fire Safety 5 (CIVE11049)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course explores the practicalities of performance-based design of buildings for fire safety. It focuses on the use of modelling tools in the estimation of performance of fire safety systems. Zone models, Egress models and CFD fire models are introduced to established modern approaches to fire safety engineering. The models will be applied using a real-life case study. |
| Course description |
1. Introduction
2. Estimating ASET and RSET using models and hand calculations
3. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
4. Fire modelling with FDS (multiple parts)
5. Design fires and model inputs
6. Introduction to Egress
7. Egress modelling with FDS+EVAC (multiple parts)
8. Guest lecture(s)
9. Conclusion
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 22,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 6,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
69 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of all the component parts of a modern fire safety engineering strategy and the tools used to assess them
- Carry out simple simulations of fire and egress using zone, egress and computational fluid dynamics fire models
- Demonstrate understanding of the benefits and limitations of several different models used in fire safety engineering design
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Reading List
"Performance-Based Fire Safety Design" by Morgan Hurley and Eric Rosenbaum, CRC Press, 2015
"An Introduction to Fire Dynamics" by Dougal Drysdale, 3rd edition, Wiley 2011
CIBSE Guide E "Fire Safety Engineering" 2010 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Fire Models,CFD |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Carvel
Tel: (0131 6)51 3576
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Margaret Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5565
Email: |
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