... can be contacted at: mikerushton@cmail.carleton.ca 23 05 2025 24 06 2025 02 07 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Fire modeling Compartment fires Fire dynamics Performance-based design Large compartments...

... performance-based design offers the potential to address shortcomings of the prescribed design. However, this shift also significantly increases the workload on structural engineers without a corresponding increase in their engineering fees. Simplified design tools are needed to assist engineers...

..., combine the large amount of published experimental data, and reliably produce fire-safe performance-based designs. Research limitations/implications Due to their limited applicability, high complexity and little comparability, the presented literature review does not focus on analysing and comparing...

... of this paper is to review and assess the application of an existing time-equivalent method in the performance-based design of reinforced concrete (RC) beams. Design/methodology/approach The assessment is established by computationally developing the moment-curvature response of RC beam sections during fire...

... Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Fire engineering Life safety Performance-based design Structural fire safety design National building authorities require different levels of structural fire protection to achieve the life safety objective...

.... Optimization of a structure can be achieved by using a “Performance-based design”, where realistic fire scenarios are taken into account by means of more or less complex models [parametric fires, two-zones models, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)]. For these so-called “natural fires”, no model for charring...

... behaviour can be used to better design large-section timber buildings. Comparisons are made with simple empirical approaches presented in EN 1995-1-2. Extensions to ‘performance-based design’ using parametric fires are also discussed. 215 Advanced Fire Design of Timber Structures Using Computational...