- Author
- Schaumann, P. | Heise, A.
- Title
- Performance-Based Design of Office Building Using the Equivalent Time Method.
- Coporate
- University of Hannover, Germany
- Book or Conf
- Designing Structures for Fire. Proceedings. Co-Sponsored by: Society of Fire Protection Engieners and Structural Engineering Institute. September 30-October 1, 2003, DEStech Publications, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 113-123 p., 2003
- Keywords
- structures | building design | office buildings | time | regulations | fire risks | residential buildings | fire load | fire protection | building codes | industrial buildings | structural members | failure | fire safety
- Identifiers
- German code DASt-Guideline 019; fire occurrence and fire load density depending on the occupancy; building classes (bcl) and required fire resistance of structural members; fire load densities for different kinds of utilisation areas in office buildings; target reliability of structural members in dependency of the building class; failure probability and safety categories according to the DASt-Guideline 019; variables of the lognormal variate and to calculate the safety factors; specification of the required fire resistance class for structural elements