Postgraduate Course: Fire Safety Engineering Analysis and Design (MSc) (PGEE11139)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course provides the principles of performance-based design of buildings for fire safety. It focuses on the use of analytical and numerical tools in the estimation of performance of fire safety systems. Advanced systems are introduced to establish modern approaches to fire safety engineering. The approach will be applied using a real case study. Guest lectures from various industrial partners will be included. |
| Course description |
Lectures:
1. Prescriptive codes
2. Means of escape
3. Performance-based fire safety engineering
4. Egress
5. Risk
6. CFD
7. Design fires
8. Mitigation
9. Smoke management
10. Guest lecture
11. Fire safety engineering design
Assignments:
1. Egress
2. Risk
3. Design fires
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
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.
- Explain the differences between prescriptive and performance based design methods.
- Understand the benefits and limitations of several calculation methods, including use of CFD 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
Drysdale, D. An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (or earlier editions)
CIBSE Guide E "Fire Safety Engineering 2010" |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Carvel
Tel: (0131 6)51 3576
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Course secretary | Miss Marjorie Drysdale
Tel: (0131 6)50 4457
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