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Performance-Based Design Of Rc Beams Using An Equivalent Standard Fire, Robert T. Kuehnen, Maged Youssef, Salah El-Din F. El-Fitiany

Civil and Environmental Engineering Publications

The design of buildings for fire events is essential to ensure occupant safety. Supplementary to simple prescriptive methods, performance-based fire design can be applied to achieve a greater level of safety and flexibility in design. To make performance-based fire design more accessible, a time equivalent method can be used to approximate a given natural fire event using a single standard fire with a specific duration. Doing so, allows for natural fire events to be linked to the wealth of existing data from the standard fire scenario.

In this paper, the use of an existing time equivalent method is reviewed and …