(3 credits)
Prerequisites
- Senior standing
- Have permission of the department
Textbooks
- none
Course Description
- This is an integrative course in which students apply fundamental fire protection engineering concepts within deterministic and risk-based frameworks to evaluate building fire safety.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completing this course, the student should:
- Be able to perform and present a comprehensive performance-based design of a building in accordance with prevailing professional standards.
Topics Covered
Deterministic Module:
- Introduction to performance-based design
- Overview of hazard analysis
- Simple fire hazard analysis
- Human behavior in fire
- Structural fire protection design
- Analysis of detection and suppression systems
- Sensitivity analysis
Probabilistic Module:
- Basic concepts
- Decision Making
- Introduction to Probabilistic Risk Analysis
- Reliability and Availability
- Risk Modeling Applications
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Uncertainty analysis
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