Structural Fire Engineering

3 Units

The Structural Fire Engineering course will discuss the analysis and design of structures subjected to fire. The course will cover the fundamentals of fire behavior, thermal boundary conditions, materials thermal properties, heat transfer, the effects of fire loading on mechanical material properties and structural systems, and structural analysis and design methods for fire resistance design of structures. Applications of advanced modeling and computational tools (such as ABAQUS) in structural fire engineering will be presented. Prereq: ECIV 315 or Requisites Not Met permission.