Performance-Based Design in Structural Fire Engineering, Volume III
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255). This special issue belongs to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 2226
Special Issue Editor
Interests: structural analysis; structural dynamics; earthquakes; concrete; fire; evaluation; rehabilitation; seismic capacity; fiber reinforced polymers; FRP; shape memory alloys; SMA; modular steel structures
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing interest in the performance-based design of structures in fire engineering presents a rational departure from the traditional prescriptive code approach. While performance-based methods are well-established in earthquake engineering, their adoption in fire engineering remains limited. This Special Issue seeks to address this disparity by providing engineers with essential knowledge and recent research developments in performance-based design for structural fire engineering. The topics of interest include fire development, dynamics, heat transfer calculations, capacities of structural and non-structural elements, fire-induced deformations and evacuation strategies. While submissions on various subjects are welcomed, we are particularly interested in studies focusing on structures within or near the wildland–urban interface, culturally significant structures and fires occurring outside structures (e.g., cladding fires). I cordially invite you to contribute a paper to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Maged A. Youssef
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fire dynamics
- travelling fires
- heat transfer
- capacity
- deformations
- performance-based design
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