Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
The application of fire engineering methods for the design
of open steel car parks
G. Wo´zniak
Building Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
R. Obiała
Arcelor Mittal, Long Products R&D, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
ABSTRACT: The paper aims to present a new method of the fire design of open steel car parks based on
fire safety engineering approach (FSE). According to the fire safety regulations in many European countries,
steel buildings have to be fire protected, sometimes without sufficient technical grounds. For economic reasons
certain types of buildings, like multi-storey open car parks, practically ...