Fire performance in buildings: academic insights and perspective analysis

Accelerated growth of urbanizaton and the consequent rise in the number of buildings results on an increase in rapid constructons without minimum criteria that enable the safe building performance and how it behaves during episodes of fre. In this scenario, this paper aims to analyze research trends and the status quo of building fire performance in the last five years, evaluating perspectives for research, and proposals for future directons through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach associated with bibliometric analysis. The analysis was carried out based on the Web of Science database under parameters such as authors, countries and regions, journals, research areas, and keywords. For each rule, among all the results retrieved, those that stood out the most in the stipulated period were evaluated. It was found that research on fire performance in projects is increasing, with a total of 402 published works. In the analysis by Systematic Literature Review, there was a trend of research concerning materials and structural systems, evaluating the performance, behavior, resistance, and safety of buildings under fire conditons. Ultimately, the results pointed out a possible evoluton of the trend in research on methodologies and intelligent control systems applied to the management of fire emergencies.

Keywords:
fire performance; building performance; fire safety; systematic literature review; bibliometric analysis

	Category Web of Science	TTTT	FT	TC	MC	h-index
1	Civil engineering	162	40.30%	700	4.32	15
2	Building constructon technology	143	35.57%	564	3.94	12
3	Multidisciplinary Materials Science	126	31.34%	419	3.33	11
4	Multidisciplinary Engineering	46	11.44%	114	2.48	6
5	Energy and Fuels	39	9.70%	275	7.05	9
6	Mechanical engineering	25	6.22%	117	4.68	5
7	Sustainable Technologies	20	4.98%	99	4.95	4
8	Thermodynamics	20	4.98%	106	5.30	5
9	Environmental engineering	18	4.48%	63	3.50	5
10	Environmental sciences	18	4.48%	66	3.67	3

N	Journal	TT	FT	TC	MC	FI
1	Fire Technology	25	6.22%	98	3.92	1.67
2	Fire and Materials	23	5.72%	68	2.95	1.92
3	Fire Safety Journal	20	4.98%	92	4.60	2.29
4	Journal of Building Engineering	14	3.48%	43	3.07	3.38
5	Constructon and Building Materials	14	3.48%	189	13.5	4.42
6	Engineering Structures	9	2.24%	85	9.44	3.55
7	Thin Walled Structures	9	2.24%	57	6.33	4.03
8	Energy Procedia	6	1.49%	20	3.33	-
9	Journal of Constructonal Steel Research	6	1.49%	56	9.33	2.94
10	Journal of Structural Engineering	6	1.49%	18	3.00	2.45

N	Keywords	TT	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
1	performance	101	11	15	21	25	29
2	behavior	67	6	5	13	21	22
3	fire resistance	62	8	6	13	17	18
4	fire	49	10	7	12	13	19
5	design	36	3	4	8	11	10
6	systems	32	3	5	7	8	9
7	resistance	32	4	4	7	7	10
8	steel	31	3	3	3	10	12
9	model	25	3	4	2	7	9
10	fire safety	24	2	7	8	1	6
11	mechanical-propertes	27	3	3	4	7	10
12	performance-based design	14	4	2	4	2	2
12	simulaton	16	2	3	2	4	5
14	beam	17	1	3	2	6	5
14	buildings	16	4	1	3	3	5
16	combuston	13	3	3	2	2	3
17	concrete	15	1	2	2	5	5
17	fire performance	25	1	1	3	8	12
17	wood	15	2	0	3	5	5
20	columns	11	2	1	2	3	3

N	País	TT	FT	TC	MC	h-index	CP
1	China	72	21,82%	256	3.56	8	20
2	U.S.A.	71	21,52%	181	2.55	7	27
3	Australia	52	15,76%	286	5.50	9	40
4	Italy	30	9,09%	237	7.90	9	21
5	England	24	7,27%	106	4.42	7	34
6	Canada	24	7,27%	62	2.58	3	12
7	India	17	5,15%	82	4.82	2	31
8	Scotland	17	5,15%	24	1.41	5	8
9	Sweden	16	4,85%	71	4.44	4	14
10	Germany	15	4,55%	28	1.87	2	8
11	France	14	4,24%	91	6.50	6	21
12	South Korea	13	3,94%	16	1.23	3	5
13	Turkey	11	3,33%	70	6.36	3	0
14	Japan	11	3,33%	13	1.18	2	3
15	Switzerland	9	2,73%	77	8.56	5	15
16	Poland	9	2,73%	52	5.78	3	13
17	New Zealand	9	2,73%	9	1.00	2	8
18	Portugal	8	2,42%	91	11.38	3	13
19	Belgium	7	2,12%	28	4.00	3	5
20	Malaysia	6	1,82%	35	5.83	3	4
32	Brazil	3	0,91%	13	4.33	1	1

N	Autor	TT	Universidade	Contribuições
1	Mahen Mahendran	17	Queensland Univ. Technol., Australia	Residual capacity analysis of LSF systems under fire conditons; like wall (Magarabooshanam et al. 2019) and foor-ceiling (Steal e Mahendran, 2020); Full-scale system test results Light steel frame (LSF) (Dias et al., 2019DIAS, Y.; KEERTHAN, P.; MAHENDRAN, M. Fire performance of steel and plasterboard sheathed non-load bearing LSF walls. Fire Safety Journal, United Kingdom, v. 103, n. 10, p. 1–18, 2019.) Development of fire performance factors for boards (Dodangoda et. Al., 2019)
2	Thomas Gernay	8	Johns Hopkins Uni., United States	Reviews on current practice in structural probabilistic fire engineering (Jovanović et al., 2020); Development of fuel load survey methodologies in office buildings (Elhami-Khorasani et al. 2020); Recommendatons for performance-based fire design of steel buildings using computer analysis (Gernay e Khorasani; 2020)
3	Wojciech Wegrzynski	6	Instytut Techniki Budowlanej, Poland	Intelligent Smoke Control Systems in Historic Buildings (Wegrzynski et al., 2020a), with glass facades (Wegrzynski et al., 2020b); Experimental and computatonal analysis of smoke dynamics in high-volume buildings (Vigne et. al, 2020)
4	Chiara Bendon	5	University of Trieste, Italy	Fire resistance of thermally insulated wooden walls (Bendon e Fragiacomo, 2019) and with partal insulaton (Bendon e Fragiacomo, 2018); Survey on the development of research on glass facades (Bendon, 2017; Bendon et al., 2018)
5	Priyan Mendis	5	University of Melbourne, Australia	Fire resistance analysis of precast aerated concrete elements (Nguyen et al., 2018), in slab systems (Weerasinghe et al., 2020) and with fiberglass composites (Nguyen et al., 2016a); Literature review on the performance of facades of modern buildings on fire (Nguyen et al., 2016b)
6	Takafum Noguchi	5	University of Tokyo, Japan	Experimental studies of fire propagaton in structural systems (Nishio et al., 2016; Zhou et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2020)
7	Hideki Yoshioka	5	Chiba University, Japan
8	Anthony Aiyanayagam	5	Queensland Univ. Technol., Australia	Analyzes of vertical sealing systems on various materials exposed to fire curves under realistic fire conditons (Ariyanayagam e Mahendran, 2018; Ariyanayagam e Mahendran, 2018b).
9	Juan P. Hidalgo	5	Univ. Edinburgh, Scotiland	Development of fire safety and performance criteria in thermal insulaton systems in buildings through tests (Crewe et al., 2018).

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Rejane Martins Viegas: Doutoranda em Arquitetura e Urbanismo pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB). E-mail: rejanemviegas@gmail.com