The Gordon Library has an extensive collection of books, both in print and electronic, related to fire protection engineering. Books and e-books can provide helpful background information on your topic. Below is a sampling of those books. To find more books, type your keywords into WPI Library Search, click on Resource Type in the left column of the search results page, and then select the Books filter.
Automatic Sprinkler Systems Handbook by 
Enclosure Fire Dynamics by
This text provides a complete description of enclosure fires and how the outbreak of a fire in a compartment causes changes in the environment. It offers a clear presentation of the dominant mechanisms controlling enclosure fires and develops simple analytical relationships useful in designing buildings for fire safety.
Engineering Mathematics with Applications to Fire Engineering by 
Explosion Dynamics by
This text is a comprehensive introductory guide to understanding and applying explosion dynamics concepts. It thoroughly explores the physical phenomena of explosions and enables readers to understand controlling variables that govern temperature, pressure, and rate of increase in pressure respectively, while also providing a mathematical framework for characterizing and applying key concepts. Providing a structured and comprehensive approach to the subject, Explosion Dynamics is an indispensable textbook that allows chemistry and engineering students, along with professional engineers and professionals in the chemical and food industries, to understand the fundamental mathematics and physics involved in explosions and develop appropriate protection and prevention measures.
Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings by 
Fundamentals of Fire Phenomena by
Understanding fire dynamics and combustion is essential in fire safety engineering and in fire science curricula. Fire Phenomena encompass everything about the scientific principles behind fire behavior. Fundamentals of Fire Phenomena is an invaluable reference tool for practicing engineers in any aspect of safety or forensic analysis.
Industrial Fire Protection Engineering by 
International Handbook on Structural Fire Engineering by 
An Introduction to Combustion by
This edition presents basic combustion concepts using relatively simple and easy-to-understand analyses and also introduces a wide range of practical applications, which motivate or relate to the various theoretical concepts.
Model Fire in a Two-Storey Timber Building by 
Principles of Fire Behavior by
This text covers the four forms of fire: diffusion flames, smoldering, spontaneous combustion, and premixed flames. Using a quantitative approach, it introduces the scientific principles of fire behavior, with coverage of heat transfer, ignition, flame spread, fire plumes, and heat flux as a damage variable. Cases, examples, problems, selected color illustrations and review of mathematics help students in fire safety and investigation understand fire from a scientific point of view.
