Thermal and structural behaviour of a full-scale composite building subject to a severe compartment fire

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 183-199

  Foster, Samantha ^a   Chladná, Magdaléna ^b   Hsieh, Christina ^c   Burgess, Ian ^a   Plank, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^c BURO HAPPOLD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite construction; Full scale testing; Structural behaviour; Structural fire engineering; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); FIRES; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TALL BUILDINGS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CEMENTITIOUS SPRAY; COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION; COMPOSITE SLAB; FIRE LOAD; STEEL COLUMNS; STRUCTURAL FIRE ENGINEERING;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 34247236323     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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