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Postgraduate Course: Fire Safety Engineering Analysis and Design (MSc) (PGEE11139)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course provides the principles of performance-based design of buildings for fire safety. It focuses on the use of analytical and numerical tools in the estimation of performance of fire safety systems. Advanced systems are introduced to establish modern approaches to fire safety engineering. The approach will be applied using a real case study. Guest lectures from various industrial partners will be included.
Course description Lectures:
1. Prescriptive codes
2. Means of escape
3. Performance-based fire safety engineering
4. Egress
5. Risk
6. CFD
7. Design fires
8. Mitigation
9. Smoke management
10. Guest lecture
11. Fire safety engineering design

Assignments:
1. Egress
2. Risk
3. Design fires
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate understanding of all the component parts of a modern fire safety engineering strategy.
  2. Explain the differences between prescriptive and performance based design methods.
  3. Understand the benefits and limitations of several calculation methods, including use of CFD in fire safety engineering design.
Reading List
"Performance-Based Fire Safety Design" by Morgan Hurley and Eric Rosenbaum, CRC Press, 2015

Drysdale, D. An Introduction to Fire Dynamics, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (or earlier editions)

CIBSE Guide E "Fire Safety Engineering 2010"
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Richard Carvel
Tel: (0131 6)51 3576
Email: Ricky.Carvel@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Marjorie Drysdale
Tel: (0131 6)50 4457
Email: marjorie.drysdale@ed.ac.uk
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