Civil engineers make use of numerical simulations of fire and smoke propagation in the early stages of building design to assess a building’s structural behavior, the fire resistance of evacuation routes and the speed and extent of the spread of a fire and smoke, among other things.
This article explains how the simulation of a severe fire in a warehouse that had caused substantial damage was undertaken. It explores the use of the fire dynamics simulator (FDS) code, developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with a two-step approach to the analysis of the cause and spread of the fire that reduces the requirement for computational resources and the time required to execute the simulation.
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The bridge represents an example of a cable stayed mixed steel-concrete structure, where the stay cables are asymmetrically connected to the center of the deck and to the top of the central transverse steel arch.
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