Estudo sobre projetos de segurança contra incêndio baseados em desempenho

Abstract

Currently, most fire safety projects follow a prescriptive approach, which often leads to limited solutions. However, in recent decades, the performance-based design philosophy has been studied and used in developed countries as an alternative and/or complement to prescriptive methods. Performance-based fire safety designs seek to evaluate the behavior and effectiveness of fire protection measures in a building or built space. Unlike projects based on prescriptive standards, which follow strict and specific rules, performance projects seek to evaluate the behavior of the fire safety system through simulations and analysis. This approach allows the creation of personalized projects, which take into account the particularities of the building in question and can guarantee greater security than that provided for in prescriptive standards. Due to the greater flexibility in relation to the choice of materials and fire protection systems, this methodology has been increasingly studied and applied. In this work, two performance-based design application examples are presented that validate the use of this methodology.