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This book is a detailed guide for the analysis and design of the actual existing high rise fire damaged buildings. The design of high building for gravity and seismic loading is a common practice for the structural engineers. But when it comes to analysis and design of the fire damaged buildings, these consulting companies find difficulties and they look for the foreign consultants for the design of such fire damaged buildings especially in the developing countries. Fire damages in buildings due to explosion, accidents or by some other reasons cause a lot of casualties and structural damage. Analytical, theoretical and design-cum-construction techniques are constantly being reviewed by government agencies and engineering consultants. Many researchers are doing research on fire retrofitting of high rise buildings. This book is an outcome of a detail research study. It covers review of existing knowledge for fire damages and their mitigation and protective design technologies, analytical and computational techniques. In this book ETABS is used as software for analysis and UBC 97 is used as a code for the analysis and design.
About the author
Muhammad Wasim is research engineer in Centre of Excellence for Concrete Research and Testing of King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA. He has been working on various governmental funded research projects. He also worked as a structural engineer in consulting firm in Pakistan; designed various high rise buildings and did the site supervision.
