ENFE614-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

Special Topic in Fire Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

Special Topic in Fire Engineering

FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING RISK ASSESSMENT

This is a Special Topic in the postgraduate Fire Engineering program with specific focus on risk analysis methods applied to fire engineering design.  The course assumes no prior knowledge of fire risk analysis but progresses to advanced topics throughout the course. The course starts with fundamentals of probability theory and the application of fault trees to determine probabilities.  Lectures will then focus on quantitative fire risk design and analysis based on event tree development and applying the results to develop fire risk curves.  The course will also cover reliability theory and the application to fire safety systems.  Several case studies will be included in this course.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course the students will have a fundamental and practical understanding of fire engineering risk assessment that will include:

1. Fundamentals of Probability theory
2. Fault Tree Analysis
3. Reliability theory
4. Qualitative risk assessment
5. Quantitative risk assessment

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable Note

Guided self study of background material in preparation for the block course:

19-21 March 2018
30 April - 2 May 2018

Course Coordinator

Charles Fleischmann

Lecturer

Professor Michael Delichatsios (University of Ulster)

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
final test 50%
Homework 20%
Semester project 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Morgan J. Hurley (Editor-in-Chief)Daniel GottukJohn R. HallJr.Kazunori HaradaErica KuligowskiMilosh PuchovskyJosé ToreroJohn M. WattsJr.Christopher Wieczorek; SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering ; 5th; 2016 (Free access for registered students through UC library http://link.springer.com.ezproxy.canterbury.ac.nz/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4939-2565-0).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,102.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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