Class Security Project II

In this curricular unit, essentially dedicated to fire safety in buildings, the fundamental knowledge on this subject will be transmitted and a safety project will be carried out.  

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Module I (Theoretical)  1. Introduction to the fire safety  2. Physical and chemical fire  3. Heat Transfer Processes  4. The spread and development of fires  5. Means protective liabilities  6. Media asset protection  7. The behavior of people in case of fire  8. The evacuation of buildings  9. The smoke control in buildings  10. The safety legislation to fire  11. Normalization of the fire safety  12. Analysis and fire risk management  13. Introduction to the modeling and simulation fire safety  Module II (practical applications)  1. Fire Safety Project (FSP)  2. Development of a work to deepen one of the given materials (with the exception of legislation and standardization). In Safety Project II, students will have to apply not only the knowledge acquired in this curricular unit, but also those obtained in Safety Project I.

Classes are based on presentations and basic bibliography, drawing on audiovisual media, complemented by a visit to a testing laboratory. Students will be called to discuss the fundamental subjects and concepts, and more complex ones. At the end of each of the topics it will be given a summary of the matter and proposed some problems so that students can mature concepts and do some practical exercises. There will also be appointed specific aspects that the most motivated students can deepen. Assessment will be continuous based on a project on the application of legislation (30%), an individual work based on the matters in hand looking for the appropriate information sources for their development (30%) and an individual written test (40%). n case of failure, the student has access to the final exam (100%), with nature and complexity equivalent to the continuous assessment.

1. Coelho, A. Leça, 2010. Incêndios em Edifícios. Lisboa. Edições Orion. 2. Drysdale, D. , 1985. Introduction to Fire Dynamics. John Wiley, Chichester, UK. European Committee for Standardization (CEN); 3. Eurocode 1 (EN 1991-2-2) - Basis of Design and Actions on Structures Part 2-2: Actions on Structures - Actions on Structures Exposed to Fire, Brussels, Belgium. 4. NFPA, 1990. Automatic Fire Detectors. National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA, USA. 5. Lei n.º 123/2019 [Procede à terceira alteração ao Decreto-Lei n.º 220/2008, de 16 de dezembro, que estabelece o o regime jurídico da segurança contra incêndios em edifícios]. Diário da República, 1.ª Série. N.º 201 (2019-10-18) pp. 3-53. 6. Portaria n.º 135/2020 [Alteração ao Regulamento Técnico de Segurança contra Incêndio em Edifícios (SCIE), aprovado pela Portaria n.º 1532/2008, de 29 de dezembro]. Diário da República, 1.ª Série. N.º 107 (2020-06-02) pp. 2-214