The SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, 4th Edition

Updated with new fire protection research and test results, the 4th edition SFPE Handbook improves your analysis and design expertise!

Written by fire scientists and engineers from around the world, the new SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering provides comprehensive coverage of today's best practices in fire protection engineering and performance-based fire safety. It's your #1 source for reliable facts on fundamentals, fire dynamics, hazard calculations, fire risk analysis, modeling, and more.

More than 9 first-time chapters expand your knowledge of timely topics, including:

• Methods for predicting temperature in fire exposed structures
• Structural fire engineering of building assemblies and frame
• Risk-informed industrial fire protection engineering
• Fire risk assessment for transportation vehicles
• Performance-based fire protection engineering

Designed to maximize your time and improve your productivity.

Conveniently organized into five sections, the Handbook features a user-friendly design plus extensive index and chapter references that help you find facts fast. Step-by-step equations explain engineering calculations, and nearly 100 new tables and visuals aid comprehension. Get the latest edition of the resource that thousands of engineers and engineering students, architects, and system designers depend on every day.

Preface
Metrication
Introduction : SFPE Handbook Roadmap

Section I : Fundamentals
Chapter 1-1 : Introduction to Mechanics of Fluids
Chapter 1-2 : Conduction of Heat in Solids
Chapter 1-3 : Convection Heat Transfer
Chapter 1-4 : Radiation Heat Transfer
Chapter 1-5 : Thermochemistry
Chapter 1-6 : Chemical Equilibrium
Chapter 1-7 : Thermal Decomposition of Polymers
Chapter 1-8 : Structural Mechanics
Chapter 1-9 : Premixed Burning
Chapter 1-10 : Properties of Building Materials
Chapter 1-11 : Probability Concepts
Chapter 1-12 : Statistics
Chapter 1-13 : Combustion Kinetics

Section II : Fire Dynamics
Chapter 2-1 : Fire Plumes, Flame Height, and Air Entrainment
Chapter 2-2 : Ceiling Jet Flows
Chapter 2-3 : Vent Flows
Chapter 2-4 : Visibility and Human Behavior in Fire Smoke
Chapter 2-5 : Effect of Combustion Conditions on Species Production
Chapter 2-6 : Assessment of Hazards to Occupants from Smoke, Toxic Gases, and Heat
Chapter 2-7 : Flammability Limits of Premixed and Diffusion Flames
Chapter 2-8 : Ignition of Liquids
Chapter 2-9 : Smoldering Combustion
Chapter 2-10 : Spontaneous Combustion and Self-Heating
Chapter 2-11 : Flaming Ignition of Solid Fuels
Chapter 2-12 : Surface Flame Spread
Chapter 2-13 : Smoke Production and Properties
Chapter 2-14 : Heat Fluxes from Fires to Surfaces
Chapter 2-15 : Liquid Fuel Fires

Section III : Hazard Calculations
Chapter 3-1 : Heat Release Rates
Chapter 3-2 : Calorimetry
Chapter 3-3 : The Cone Calorimeter
Chapter 3-4 : Generation of Heat and Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid Products in Fires
Chapter 3-5 : Compartment Fire Modeling
Chapter 3-6 : Estimating Temperatures in Compartment Fires
Chapter 3-7 : Zone Computer Fire Models for Enclosures
Chapter 3-8 : Modeling Enclosure Fires Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Chapter 3-9 : Enclosure Smoke Filling and Fire-Generated Environmental Conditions
Chapter 3-10 : Fire Hazard Calculations for Large, Open Hydrocarbon Fires
Chapter 3-11 : Behavioral Response to Fire and Smoke
Chapter 3-12 : Evacuation Time
Chapter 3-13 : Employing the Hydraulic Model in Assessing Emergency Movement
Chapter 3-14 : Stochastic Models of Fire Growth
Chapter 3-15 : Explosion Protection
Chapter 3-16 : Performance-Based Design
Chapter 3-17 : Computer Evacuation Models for Buildings
Chapter 3-18 : Electrical Fires

Section IV : Design Calculations
Chapter 4-1 : Design of Detection Systems
Chapter 4-2 : Hydraulics
Chapter 4-3 : Automatic Sprinkler System Calculations
Chapter 4-4 : Foam Agents and AFFF System Design Considerations
Chapter 4-5 : Foam System Calculations
Chapter 4-6 : Halon Design Calculations
Chapter 4-7 : Halon Replacement Clean Agent Total Flooding Systems
Chapter 4-8 : Enclosure Fire Temperature-Time Estimation
Chapter 4-9 : Methods for Predicting Termperatures in Fire- Exposed Structures
Chapter 4-10 : Structural Fire Engineering of Building Assemblies and Frames
Chapter 4-11 : Analytical Methods for Determining Fire Resistance of Steel Members
Chapter 4-12 : Analytical Methods for Determining Fire Resistance of Concrete Members
Chapter 4-13 : Analytical Methods for Determining Fire Resistance of Timber Members
Chapter 4-14 : Smoke Control
Chapter 4-15 : Smoke Management by Mechanical Exhaust or Natural Venting
Chapter 4-16 : Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems

Section V : Fire Risk Analysis
Chapter 5-1 : Introduction to Fire Risk Analysis
Chapter 5-2 : Decision Analysis
Chapter 5-3 : Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability
Chapter 5-4 : Uncertainty
Chapter 5-5 : Data for Engineering Analysis
Chapter 5-6 : Measuring Consequences in Economic Terms
Chapter 5-7 : Engineering Economics
Chapter 5-8 : Extreme Value Theory
Chapter 5-9 : Computer Simulation for Fire Risk Analysis
Chapter 5-10 : Fire Risk Indexing
Chapter 5-11 : Fire Scenarios
Chapter 5-12 : Building Fire Risk Analysis
Chapter 5-13 : Risk-Informed Industrial Fire Protection Engineering
Chapter 5-14 : Fire Risk Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants
Chapter 5-15 : Fire Risk Assessment in Air, Rail, and Sea Mass Transportation
Chapter 5-16 : Product Fire Risk Analysis
Chapter 5-17 : Health Care Application of Quantitative Fire Risk Analysis

Appendices
Appendix A : Conversion Factors
Appendix B : Thermophysical Property Data
Appendix C : Fuel Properties and Combustion Data
Appendix D : Configuration Factors
Appendix E : Piping Properties
Index