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Overview
SDFRS12
Overview
Mini-Symposium and Workshop on Design for Fire
Resistance in Structures.
Recent large fires in residential and industrial
complexes across the region (nation) have triggered a need for education about
fire safety in building design, construction and maintenance.
This two-day symposium will focus on the
theoretical and practical aspects of fire engineering in relation to structural
stability in fire. The speakers will initiate an introduction to the concepts
of fire engineering of structures, safety and will present recent technological
advancements. The response of steel and concrete structures during fire will be
discussed, along with strategies for enhancing their fire performance.
The symposium will focus on the design, behavior
and analytical modeling of structural systems under extreme fire conditions and
material properties at elevated temperatures. Guidelines for enhancing the fire
resistance of structural systems will be presented. The latest philosophies in
performance-based fire safety design and analysis of structures in fire will be
presented along with evidence from real building fires.
Changes due to elevated temperatures in the
mechanical properties of construction materials, such as steel, concrete and
advanced engineered materials such as fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) used in
strengthening structural materials will be discussed. The effect on design of
structures with such changes in the material properties at elevated
temperatures will be covered.
Objectives
The objective of this symposium is to teach
participants about the behavior and analytical modeling of structural systems
under extreme fire conditions and material properties at elevated temperatures.
Outline
- Symposium opening, objectives and introductions
- Evaluating fire resistance of concrete structures
- Introduction to fire safety design
- Modeling fire performance of FRP-strengthened
structural members - Developing fire scenarios in buildings
- Thermal analysis using ANSYS
- Performance-based design - case studies from the
UAE - Engineering lessons learned from 9/11 World Trade
Center - Evaluating fire resistance of steel structures
Towers
Prerequisite
There are no prerequisites to attend this
symposium except a basic understanding of building design and construction.
Certificates
The American University of Sharjah College of
Engineering will issue a certificate of completion for the delegates who attend
the entire symposium.
Who Should Attend
- Practicing design engineers - government and private
- Faculty members of engineering and architecture colleges
- Research scholars and post-graduate students of the built environment
- Civil, structural, mechanical engineers and architects
- Government (local/state) regulatory and building officials
- Scientists and officers from government R&D organizations and ministries
Day1: Symposium
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. |
Opening speech |
Dr. Yousef Al Assaf / Dean, AUS College of Engineering |
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Presentation by the Society of Engineers |
Mr. Maged Farouck Hanna |
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Introduction to fire safety design |
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur |
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Coffee break |
|
12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. |
Performance-based design - case studies from the UAE and internationally |
Dr. Susan Lamont |
01:00 p.m. - 01:15 p.m. |
Presentation by AON |
TBC |
01:15 p.m. - 02:00 p.m. |
Optimizing of passive fire protection and structural fire analysis for beams with web openings |
Mr. Peter Scott |
02:00 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. |
Lunch break |
|
03:00 p.m. - 03:30 p.m. |
Modeling fire performance of FRP-strengthened structural members |
Dr. Rami Hawileh |
03:30 p.m. - 04:45 p.m. |
Engineering lessons learned from 9/11 World Trade Center Towers |
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur |
Day 2: Workshops
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
09:00 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. |
Registration |
|
09:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Developing fire scenarios in buildings |
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur |
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 p.m. |
Coffee break |
|
11:15 a.m. - 01:00 p.m. |
Evaluating fire resistance of steel structures |
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur |
01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m. |
Lunch break |
|
02:00 p.m. - 03:15 p.m. |
Evaluating fire resistance of concrete structures |
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur |
03:15 p.m. - 03:30 p.m. |
Coffee break |
|
03:30 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. |
Thermal analysis using ANSYS - Participants will also practice a simple tutorial |
Dr. Rami Hawileh |
05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m. |
Q&A - Closing session |
Registration
Registration is required for all participants due to
seats limitation.
The first day of the symposium is FREE of CHARGE
The registration fee for the workshops day is USD
400, AED 1,450.
- Corporate Clients Registration - click here
- Academics and AUS Alumni Registration - click here
Sponsorship
Co-sponsoring the 2012 Symposium on Design for
Fire Resistance in Structures is possible at a minimum of AED 15,000. Following
are the benefits of co-sponsoring the symposium:
- Company name and logo of appropriate sizes will
be published in all publicity materials as a co-sponsor. - Up to seven delegates from the sponsoring company
may attend the symposium mini-symposium
and workshop free of charge. - A booth or two tables and four chairs with the
required fittings can be provided at the symposium rotunda. - Company name and logo will be displayed on the
symposium banners and website.
About the Presenters
Dr. Venkatesh Kodur is a Professor and Director of
the Center on Structural Fire Engineering and Diagnostics at Michigan State
University. His research interests include: evaluation of fire resistance of
structural systems through large-scale fire experiments and numerical modeling
and characterization of materials under high temperature. His research
contributions have lead to the development of a fundamental understanding on
the fire behavior of material and structural systems and also resulted in
numerous design approaches and innovative and cost-effective solutions for
enhancing fire-resistance of structural systems. He has published over 250
peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings, and has given
numerous invited keynote presentations.
Professor Kodur is a Fellow of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering and also a Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.
He is a professional engineer, Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers,
Fellow of American Concrete Institute, Associate Editor of Journal of
Structural Engineering, Chairman of ACI Fire Protection Committee, Chairman of
ASCE-29 (Fire) Standards Committee and a member of UK-EPSRC College of
Reviewers. He has won many awards including AISC Faculty Fellowship Award, MSU
Distinguished Faculty Award, NRCC (Government of Canada) Outstanding
Achievement Award and NATO Award for collaborative research.
Dr. Kodur was part of the FEMA/ASCE Building
Performance Assessment Team that studied the collapse of the World Trade
Center, New York, buildings as a result of September 11, 2001 incidents.
Dr. Susan Lamont, CEng MSFPE, is an Associate
Director at Arup Gulf Ltd. Dr. Lamont has worked in the fire protection
industry for 12 years in the UK, US and Middle East. She is a chartered
engineer and professional member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
(SFPE). Her doctorate research looked at the response of composite steel frame
structures in real post-flashover fires. Since joining Arup she has worked on a
diverse range of projects from large assembly buildings, hospitals, schools,
shopping malls and offices to master plans and transport hubs. Her role on many
projects is to guide the developer/owner through fire safety design, testing
and commissioning to occupation and wherever possible to fire safety management
of the completed building. She is currently leader of the fire engineering team
for Arup in the Middle East. She works closely with her clients and the local
authorities in the Gulf to maintain a high level of fire safety in new and
existing buildings.
Dr. Rami Hawileh is Associate Professor of Civil
Engineering at American University of Sharjah, UAE. He joined AUS in August
2007 as an assistant professor. Before that, he was a structural analyst at
AREVA NP INC., an AREVA and Siemens Company, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA (2006-2007).
He was lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
USA (2005-2006) and Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
(2003-2006). He was a structural engineer at the Austin Company, Schaumber, IL,
USA (2000-2001). Dr. Hawileh has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee (2005), an MS from Bradley University (2000), and a BSc from Birzeit
University (1998), all in civil engineering with emphasis on structures. His
research interests include strengthening and computational modeling of
reinforced concrete structures subjected to fire and cyclic loading. He has
published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in
international journals. He has also published over 30 articles in international
conference proceedings and given numerous presentations on finite element
modeling of structural concrete members strengthened with FRP
laminates when subjected to static, cyclic and
fire loading.
Mr. Peter Scott is International Paint's
Structural Engineering Manager specializing in structural fire design and fire
protection of structural steel using intumescent products. He has managed
multidiscipline teams within consulting engineers. He specializes in fire
protection of structural steel for both hydrocarbon and cellulosic types of
fire. He has had the benefit of working in consulting, contracting and
fabrication which has given him huge experience of contracts and interfacing
with all parties in the design and construction process and the procurement
chain. He has built up extensive fire protection product knowledge allowing him
to confidently deliver information and advice to clients.
Contact Us
For more information about the Symposium, please contact us:
Engineering Outreach Program
College of Engineering
American University of Sharjah
PO Box 26666
Sharjah, UAE
Outreach Manager
Rami M Mahfouz
Tel +971 6 515 2852
Fax +971 6 515 2979
[email protected]
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