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Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings

By: Robert W. Fitzgerald,Brian J. Meacham

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Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings

By: Robert W. Fitzgerald,Brian J. Meacham

A building fire is dynamic. A continually changing hostile fire environment influences time relationships that affect fire defenses and risks to people and building functions. The fire and fire defenses in each building interact with different sequences and distinct ways. Risks are characterized by the building’s performance. Significantly updated and restructured new edition Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, 2nd Edition organizes the complex interactions into an analytical framework to evaluate any building - at any location - built under any regulatory jurisdiction or era. Systematic, logical procedures evaluate individual component behavior and integrate results to understand holistic performance. The Interactive Performance Information (IPI) chart structures complex time-related interactions among the fire, fire defenses, and associated risks. Quantification uses state-of-the-art deterministic methods of fire safety engineering and fire science. Managing uncertainty is specifically addressed. Key features: Emphasizes fire performance analysis for new or existing buildings. Augments fire dynamics calculation methods with qualitative methods to form a more complete understanding of the effects of hostile fire characteristics on building performance. Describes fire ground operations for engineers with no fire service experience. An analysis evaluates ways the site and building design help or hinder manual fire suppression. Establishes a transition from traditional structural requirements to modern calculation based structural analysis and design for fire conditions. Structural concepts are described for non-structural engineers to enable the roles of each profession to be integrated into comprehensive performance evaluations. Addresses techniques of managing uncertainty to improve understanding and communication with professionals of other disciplines. Describes methods of risk management using information from the building’s performance analysis. Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, 2nd Edition has been completely restructured around a performance based framework. Applications integrate traditional fire defenses with fire science and engineering to combine component performance with holistic performance.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118657098

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9781118657096

Building Fire Performance Analysis

By: Robert W. Fitzgerald

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Building Fire Performance Analysis

By: Robert W. Fitzgerald

Around the world, prescriptive building codes and fire safety standards are increasingly being replaced or supplemented by performance-based standards. This book discusses the implications in the industry to provide increased design flexibility, lower costs, improved safety, and even enhanced global trade. The building fire performance evaluation procedures described in this book can be used with any code, standard, or regulatory requirements. The key feature of this publication is its aid to professionals who work in the building and other such industries to make better decisions concerning fire performance and to communicate more effectively with professionals in other disciplines working in this area.

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536

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470863277

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9780470863275

Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction

Race and Radicalism

By: Robert Harrison

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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction

Race and Radicalism

By: Robert Harrison

In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and the Freedmen's Bureau attempted to assist Washington's freed population and shows how officials struggled to address the social problems resulting from large-scale African-American migration. It also sheds new light on the political processes that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and the onset of black disfranchisement.

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355

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Cambridge University Press

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1139499025

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9781139499026

Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization

His Journals, 1863-1866

By: Parks M. Coble,Robert Hart

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Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization

His Journals, 1863-1866

By: Parks M. Coble,Robert Hart

These journal entries continue the sequence begun in Entering China's Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy, and inspecting the treaty ports. They culminate in Hart's return visit to Europe with the Pinch'un Mission and his marriage in Northern Ireland.

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620

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Harvard Univ Asia Center

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0674775309

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9780674775305

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

By: Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember,Robert D. Hoppa

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Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

By: Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember,Robert D. Hoppa

This comprehensive and scientific introduction to physical& anthropology& and archaeology is the only book to give& balanced treatment to both biological and cultural evolution and the interaction between them to help students understand what & humans are and were like and why they got to be that way.

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0130414662

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Fatal Hour

The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime

By: George Robert Blakey,R. Blakey,Richard N. Billings

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Fatal Hour

The Assassination of President Kennedy by Organized Crime

By: George Robert Blakey,R. Blakey,Richard N. Billings

Dramatic and timely, this detailed account reveals the facts about issues surrounding organized crime's vendetta against Kennedy--including the Chicago syndicate's involvement in his election, Robert Kennedy's relentless pursuit of the Mafia, Jim Garrison's relationship to organized crime, and much more. 8-page photo insert. Previously published as The Plot to Kill the President (Times Books).

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Berkley

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0425135705

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Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings

Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings

Building Fire Performance Analysis

Building Fire Performance Analysis

Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction

Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction

Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization

Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Physical Anthropology and Archaeology

Fatal Hour

Fatal Hour

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