Introduction to Structural Fire Protection Engineering

This one-day seminar provides an overview of the rules and guidelines that can be used to assess the fire resistance of building assemblies composed of steel, concrete, masonry and wood.  In addition, the seminar outlines methods of performance-based analyses to determine the fire resistance of exposed structural assemblies.  These include methods to estimate the temperature of steel members exposed to fire, and to calculate the structural response of concrete slabs and steel columns.  The availability of computer-based methods to conduct performance-based analysis will be discussed. 

This seminar is valuable to code officials, architects and engineers who need to asses or understand assessments of the fire resistance of buildings assemblies.