Undergraduate Course: Fire Safety Engineering 3 (CIVE09023)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Civil |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This module is intended to provide the basic knowledge required to study fire safety. This includes basic tools related to fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion. The core of the module will provide a general overview of the discipline including the fire, fire safety and fire protection systems. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| The objectives of this module are to introduce the student to the discipline of Fire Safety Engineering, therefore this module can act as an elective for students from other disciplines. Basic knowledge necessary to study Fire Safety Engineering will be provided. The student after this module will be ready to undertake studies in Fire Safety Engineering as well as having a clear understanding of the gals of the profession. |
Assessment Information
| Coursework (30%) and degree examination (70%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
W1 Fire Safety as an Engineering Discipline
Description of the goals of fire safety and the importance of introducing fire safety in the design of buildings and structures.
The social cost of fire.
Prescription and Performance as alternative methodologies for design.
W2 Fire Safety and the Architect
The Fire Safety Strategy
Building Design & The Concept of Space
Architect vs. Engineer
W3 Case Study #1: Fire Safety in Tunnels
W4 Fire Safety needs for different environments
Industrial
Public
Residential
W5 The concept of ¿Timelines¿
The concept of time scales during a fire emergency.
Fire growth: Introduction to compartment fires.
Structural behaviour: The impact of a fire on a structure, property changes, loss of strength, deformation and thermal expansion.
Egress: Basic principles of human behaviour and emergency evacuation.
W6 Case Study #2: Tall Buildings
W7 Basic principles of Evacuation, Fire Brigade intervention, ¿Losses¿ and ¿Insurance¿
Principles of human behaviour, evacuation under emergency conditions. Empirical methods for evacuation modelling. Effect of fire smoke on people. Thermal skin injuries.
Objectives, organization and practices of the fire brigade. The roles of the fire brigade, prevention and response. The role of the fire brigade in performance based design. Training of the fire brigade.
Building approval, responsibility and liability. The role of insurance, premiums and the approach of the insurance to fire prevention. Risk analysis, statistics and fire related probabilities.
W8 Basic principles of ¿Fire Resistance¿ and ¿Fire Protection¿
Standard practices
Fire proofing
Introduction to suppression: fire extinction, passive and active fire suppression systems.
Introduction to detection and alarm: Different technologies used for fire detection and the different concepts of alarm.
Smoke management: Introduction to passive and active smoke management, compartmentation and smoke evacuation.
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
D. Drysdale, An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
J. Quintiere, Principles of Fire Behavior, Delmar, 1997.
SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 3rd Edition, SFPE, 2003.
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Adam Cowlard
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Course secretary | Ms Tina Mcavoy
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
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