From SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection Analysis and Design of Buildings
Figure 8-0: Overview of the Performance-Based Design Process, Developing Design Fire Scenarios
8.1 General
Once the performance criteria have been established, the engineer needs to focus on the development and analysis of design alternatives to meet these criteria. The first part of analyzing design alternatives is the consideration of possible fire scenarios, which are then filtered into selected design fire scenarios. Once design fire scenarios are established, then trial designs can be developed (see Chapter 9) and evaluated (see Chapter 10) to determine whether they meet the performance criteria for every design fire scenario. Figure 8-1 illustrates this process.
Figure 8-1: Identifying, Developing, and Evaluating Fire Scenarios
The process of identifying possible fire scenarios and developing them into design fire scenarios consists of the following steps:
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Consider possible fire scenarios (Section 8.2).
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Define the design fire scenarios, a subset of the possible fire scenarios (Section 8.4).
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Quantify the design fire scenarios.
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8.2 Identifying Possible Fire Scenarios 8.2.1 General Fire scenarios describe factors critical to the outcome of fires, such as fire protection features, ignition sources, the nature and...
8.4 Identifying Design Fire Scenarios Given the large number of possible fire scenarios for a given performance-based design project, it is usually necessary to reduce the possible fire scenario...
Figure 10-0: Overview of the Performance-Based Design Process, Evaluating Trial Designs 10.1 Overview of the Evaluation Process 10.1.1 Evaluation is the process of determining if a trial...
Figure 9-0: Overview of the Performance-Based Design Process, Developing Trial Designs 9.1 General 9.1.1 After the performance criteria have been established and the design fire scenarios...
8.5 Characterizing Design Fire Scenarios 8.5.1 General This section provides information to assist in quantifying building characteristics, occupant characteristics, and design fire curves,...
