Masters of Engineering - Come study Fire Engineering at Stellenbosch University

4. Fighting informal settlement and backyard fires - From alarms to fire trucks

7. Moving forward: To safer informal settlement and backyard communities

6. Making informal settlement homes more fire resistant

5. Backyard dwellings and fire safety

3. Community engagement: How should we partner and engage with communities to improve fire safety?

2. Understanding fire science: A spark becomes a disaster

1. Informal settlement and backyard fires: 'Our burning nation'

Masters in Engineering - Launch and overview of fire safety programme at Stellenbosch University

Fundamentals of Fire Safety Engineering - 15-19 August 2022 - Course overview

Cone Calorimeter & Heat Release Rates for Fire Engineering

Understanding standard fire furnace testing

Understanding passive fire protection products for buildings - Some demonstrations and discussions

Fire Behaviour - Introduction to the course - Stellenbosch University

Steel Connections - Design of bolted and welded connections - SD424

Steel Connections - Bolt capacity and failure modes - SD424

Steel Connections - Derivation of force in a bolt group loaded in plane - SD424

Building Design and Analysis: Load Paths for Vertical Loads (Load run down)

Building Design & Analysis: Load Paths for Lateral Loads and Bracing Design

Structural Analysis and Design - P-delta effects, Second-order Analyses & Notional Horizontal Loads

Structural Analysis and Design - Approximate building analyses / Truss-beam analogy for design

Structural Analysis and Design - Understanding bracing and bending moments in buildings

Steel Design - Beam-column design - Worked Example - SD424

Steel Design - Beam-column design - Theory and equations - SD424

Steel Design - Shear design of members - SD424

Steel Design - Influence of bending moment on capacity - w2 factor - SD424

Steel Design - Effective lengths of columns - SD424

Steel Design - Effective lengths of beams / Normal vs. destabilising loads / Connections - SD424

Steel Design - Effective lengths of beams - Illustration example - SD424

Steel Design - Section Classification and Local Buckling - SD424

World's largest informal settlement fire experiment - 20 homes ignited in 5 minutes

Composite Structures in Fire: Introduction

Advanced Modelling of Structures in Fire

Timber Structures in Fire: Introduction

Concrete Structures in Fire: Introduction

Steel Structures in Fire: Introduction

Design of Structures Exposed to Fire: Introduction

Fires and Heat: Introduction

Structural Fire Engineering - Introduction

Steel in Fire: Fundamentals of Design

Steel in Fire: Worked Example - Beam Design

Steel in Fire: Worked Example - Heat transfer and column design

Concrete in Fire: Behaviour and Beam Design

Design of Structures Exposed to Fire: Loading

Timber Structures in Fire: Fundamentals of Design

Advanced Structural Fire Models: Fire Modelling Options

Advanced Structural Fire Models: Modelling Members in Fire

Advanced Structural Fire Models: Composite Structures

Design of Structures Exposed to Fire - Restrained Column

Fire Severity & Resistance - Standard fire time equivalence of parametric fire

Fire & Heat - Eurocode Parametric Fire Worked Example

Fires And Heat - Enclosure Fire Dynamics

Fires & Heat: Configuration factor for radiative heating

Fire Severity & Fire Resistance: Standard fire ratings

Design of Structures Exposed to Fire: Strains in materials at elevated temperatures

Steel Structures in Fire: Section Factor