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41. Design Approaches for Smoke Control in Atrium Buildings

    (BR 258)

    By G.O. Hansell

    Gives general principles for design of smoke control systems, with simplified design procedures for an ideal model and guidance on frequently encountered problems. Offers a linked network of approaches that lend themselves to computer programming....

    Published December 31st 1993 by IHS BRE Press
42. Heat Release In Fires

    Published June 3rd 1992 by Routledge
43. Fire Safety Science

    Edited by G. Cox, B. Langford

    This book provides an essential reference on the current state of the art in this field covering topics as diverse as physics, chemistry, toxicology and human behaviour. It contains nearly one hundred scientific papers on all aspects of the subject. Many papers are included which illustrate the...

    Published November 18th 1991 by Routledge
44. Management and Engineering of Fire Safety and Loss Prevention

    Onshore and offshore

    Edited by BHR Group Ltd

    The papers presented deal with the general methods and techniques, from a range of disciplines, as they can be applied to specific engineering and fire safety situations. The circumstances described include a variety of large scale plant applications in the petrochemical industry. As such...

    Published August 29th 1991 by Routledge
45. Fire Loss Control

    A Management Guide, Second Edition,

    By P. M. Bochnak

    Series: Occupational Safety and Health

    Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a new chapter on life safety elements was added to the second edition). Some of the topics are the characteristics and behavior of fire, t...

    Published February 28th 1991 by CRC Press
46. External Fire Spread

    Building Separation and Boundary Distances (BR 187)

    By Richard Chitty

    A classic report from FRS describing different methods for calculating adequate space separation between buildings, in support of Approved Document B of the Building regulations for England and Wales....

    Published December 31st 1990 by IHS BRE Press
47. Design Principles for Smoke Ventilation in Enclosed Shopping Centres

    (BR 186)

    By H.P. Morgan

    This report summarises the design advice from the Fire Research Station, drawing on the experience and ideas of a number of sources....

    Published December 31st 1989 by IHS BRE Press
48. Fire

    Fundamentals and Control

    By Haessler

    Series: Occupational Safety and Health

    Published December 11th 1988 by CRC Press
49. Guidelines for the Construction of Fire-Resisting Structural Elements

    (BR 128), 2nd Edition

    By W.A. Morris

    Establishes guidelines for the construction of fire-resisting structural elements and includes tables of notional periods of fire resistance based on current test data....

    Published December 31st 1987 by IHS BRE Press
50. Fire Research Station 1951-1986 Selected Papers

    (BR 80)

    By P. H. Thomas

    The cream' of the research papers of Philip Thomas of FRS whose contribution to fire science from 1951 until his retirement in 1986 represents a huge step forward in fire research....

    Published December 31st 1985 by IHS BRE Press