Table of contents

1 Fire safety
1.1 What is fire safety?
1.2 Development of a fire
1.3 Design of fire safe buildings
1.4 Fire safety requirements
1.5 Fire as an accidental action
1.6 Behaviour of steel during fire
1.7 Literature
2 Calculation of the fire restance
2.1 Terms and conditions
2.2 Calculation of the thermal response
2.3 Calculation of the mechanical response
2.4 tension members
2.5 Beams not sensitive to lateral torsional buckling
2.6 Columns
2.7 Beams sensitive to lateral torsional buckling
2.8 Integrated beams, unprotected
2.9 Integrated beams, protected
3 Fire safety engineering
3.1 What is fire safety engineering?
3.2 Natural fires and local fires
3.3 Natural fire and compartment fires
3.4 Natural fires and external steel structures
3.5 System behaviours of steel structures
3.6 Literature
4 Design tables