A Preliminary Study on Performance-based Fire Safety Engineering Design Procedure for Buildings─ A Case Study for Underground Facility
| Autor: | Chin-Wei Yang, 楊靖威 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 90 The thesis is to study the corresponding contents of design procedure for the performance-based design (PBD) when the performance-based codes are carried out. First, the thesis explains the necessity and advantages of the performance-based codes by showing the irrelevancy and disadvantages of the old prescriptive-based codes, and the thesis also points out the major objectives of the PBD. Next, an 11-item table, consisting of the design guides used in UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand, is given to make a comparison analysis. The updated one of Japan is also presented in an individual section. The thesis plans a basic scheme and all the procedures needed for the PBD on the basis of The SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-based Fire Protection Analysis and Design and explains the contents of each procedure thoroughly in chapter 3. The scheme of PBD can be divided into three major parts, which are the establishment of the project, the development and evaluation of trial designs and the preparation of design documents, respectively. The second part of the scheme is the most important core of the PBD. In chapter 4, a case study, which contains evaluations of the egress time and the spread of heat and smoke produced by fire in an underground facility of the MRT system, is carried out by using the PBD procedures introduced in chapter 3 to confirm the reliability of the evacuation method and to provide a reference material for someone who is interested in PBD. According to the result of analysis, the thesis ends up with some conclusions and recommendations, which include the importance of the documents of PBD, and the recommendations of the transformation from the prescriptive-based codes to the performance-based codes, to make sure the introduction of the PBD from other countries in the near future can improve the levels of fire safety successfully. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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