Structural fire analysis
Challenge previous thinking
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Optimise your fire protection
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Optimising passive fire protection (PFP) means reducing offshore work.
PFP is often extensively used for structures on both new and existing offshore installations.
Many reasons exist for minimising the amount of PFP:
- complicates inspection
- complicates modifications
- substantial maintenance costs
- weight issues.
We provide an analysis method which identifies and documents safe solutions while reducing the amount of PFP.
Typical steps during the PFP design process are:
- run fire simulation
- propose PFP layout
- compute temperature and structural response
- propose optimal PFP design layout
Our method takes account of research and development results over recent years, including:
- better knowledge about the behaviour of different hydrocarbon fires
- international standards for the behaviour of materials at high temperatures
- analysis of structures exposed to extreme (accidental) loads
- specialised analysis tools
Tools include:
- Kameleon FireEx
- Fahts
- Usfos
- Sesam