An analysis of the global structural behaviour of the Cardington steel-framed building during the two BRE fire tests

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 401-412

  Wang, Y C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardington tests; Fire resistance; Whole building behaviour

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FIRE RESISTANCE; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE FIREFRAME; STEEL-FRAMED BUILDINGS;

STEEL CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033889909     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00127-8     Document Type: Article

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