Building Fire and Smoke Dynamics detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of building fire and smoke dynamics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
FIRE SCIENCE AND AERODYNAMICS 9
Fire Science and Combustion: Fuels and the combustion process, The physical chemistry of combustion in fire. Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics: Summary of the heat transfer equations, Conduction, Convection, and Radiation.
Unit II
FLAMMABILITY AND PREMIXED FLAMES 9
Limits of Flammability and Premixed Flames: Limits of Flammability, The structure of a premixed flame, Heat losses from premixed flames, Measurement of burning velocities, Variation of burning velocity with experimental parameters.
Unit III
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Unit IV
BEHAVIOR OF IGNITION 9
Ignition: The Initiation of Flaming Combustion: Ignition of flammable vapor/air mixtures, Ignition of liquids, Pilot ignition of solids, Spontaneous ignition of combustible solids, Surface ignition, Extinction of flame. Spread of Flame: The phenomenology of flame spread, Theoretical models of flame spread, Spread of flame through open fuel beds, Applications.
Unit V
STAGES OF FIRE 9
The Pre-Flashover Compartment Fire: The growth period and the definition of flashover, Growth to flashover. The Post-Flashover Compartment Fire: Regimes of burning, Fully-developed firebehaviour, Temperatures achieved in full-developed fire, Fire resistance and fire severity, Methods of calculating fire resistance, Projection of flames from burning compartments, spread of fire from compartment.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand the fire opposition and its procedure
- Analysis of fire behavior and fire problems.
- Get the knowledge about stage of fire flowing and detail about ignition.
- Understand methods of calculating fire resistance from burning compartments.
- We learn details about premixed flames and its characteristics.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Text book for fire safety engineering design of structure for john A.Purkis, Bsc (eng),PhD, MICE,MIFS at Butterworth Heinemann, first published 1996.
- An Introduction to Fire Dynamics written by Dougal Drysdale3. SFPE Hand Book for Fire Protection Engineering, NFPA
- Smoke Movement in buildings by J.H. McGuire “Fire Tech.3 (1967)
- NFPA 204M, Guide for Smoke & Heat Venting Rates of Production of Hot Gases in Roof Venting Experiments by P.L. Hinckley.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Safety & Fire Engineering 5th Sem, visit SFE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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