Front Page Article: Structural repair and renewal: Fire-safe solutions
Dr Luke Bisby has joined the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University Edinburgh’s Institute for Infrastructure and Environment as the Arup–Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in Structures in Fire. He is focusing on improving the fire safety of both traditional and new building materials and methods of building repair.
In the wake of several highprofile structural collapses due to fire, engineers are increasingly expected to provide additional structural integrity in fire to resist collapse, and to develop rational and reliable methods to predict and prevent structural failures due to multiple hazards.
This new reality of structural design has raised important questions about the engineering community’s understanding of the complex interactions governing the response of both materials and structural systems to fire. The structural fire safety engineering community has identified several key areas in which current knowledge is lacking, both for existing structures and for the next generation of infrastructure.
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