030-0104/02 – Engineering Methods in Fire Protection (IMvPO)
| Gurantor department | Department of Fire Protection | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Kučera, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Kučera, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type A |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course focuses on the fire safety of buildings using fire engineering, therefore, there is the overview of the computational procedures. These determine the origin and development of the fire and assessment of possible behaviour of people during evacuation. There is also a description of the design fire scenarios. The student will learn to design buildings according to the current concept of fire safety engineering.
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Summary
Fire safety engineering includes scientific and engineering principles, rules, and expertise based on an understanding of the basic phenomena of fire and on understanding the behavior of persons during a fire. The main objective of fire engineering is provide acceptable conditions for ensuring the protection of human, the protection of property, environment and cultural heritage in the event of a fire.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
VFDB Technischer Bericht TB 04-01: Leitfaden Ingenieurmethoden des Brandschutzes. Altenberge: Vereinigung zur Förderung des Deutschen Brandschutzes e.V. 2013.
Standards ISO NFPA, BS, DIN, BS,...
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Professional knowledge will be continuously verified by tests in exercises and by entering a translation of a scientific text. The achieved professional qualifications will be verified by the elaboration of a semester project and its successful defense. The final verification of the study results is a summary of the fulfilment of the requirements for the credit and a final examination.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in seminars and elaboration of semester project.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Concept of fire safety engineering (basic concepts and principles)
2. Principles of settings goals of fire safety objectives and acceptability criteria
3. Design fire, creation of fire scenarios
4. Solving partial requirements of fire safety of buildings
5. Fire safety engineering - fire dynamics in relation to design of fire safety of buildings
6. Fire safety engineering - determination of fire risk
7. Fire safety engineering - fire resistance of building structures
8. Fire safety engineering - fire danger area and determination of safety distances
9. Fire safety engineering - evacuation strategy, evacuation scenarios
10. Fire safety engineering - evacuation of persons
11. Fire safety engineering - active elements of fire protection
12. Examples of fire safety engineering in technical practice
13. Reserve
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