The fire behaviour of multi-bay, two-way reinforced concrete slabs

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3566-3573

  Moss, P J ^a   Dhakal, R P ^a   Wang, G ^b   Buchanan, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Arup Geotechnics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuity; Fire resistance; Flat slabs; Membrane action; Reinforced concrete; SAFIR

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CONCRETE SLABS; DISASTERS; FIRE PROTECTION; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

CONTINUITY; FIRE BEHAVIOURS; FLAT SLABS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARAMETRIC FIRES; REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS; SAFIR; TENSION FIELD ACTIONS;

FIRE RESISTANCE;

BENDING; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REINFORCED CONCRETE; TENSION;

EID: 55949126154     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Buchanan A.H. Structural design for fire safety (2001), Wiley, Chichester, England, New York
2. Selvaggio SL, Carlson CC. Effect of restraint on fire resistance of prestressed concrete. American Society for Testing and Materials, STP 344; 1963
3. Issen L.A., Gustaferro A.H., and Carlson C.C. Fire tests of concrete members; An improved method for estimating thermal restraint forces. Fire Test Performance (1970) 153-185
4. Anderberg Y. Properties of materials at high temperatures-Steel. RILEM report. Sweden: University of Lund; 1983
5. Harmathy T.Z. Fire safety design and concrete (1993), Longman Scientific & Technical; Wiley, Harlow, Essex, England, New York, NY
6. Lim LCS. Membrane action in fire exposed concrete floor systems. Fire Engineering Research report number 03/2. Christchurch (New Zealand): University of Canterbury; 2003
7. Park R. Tensile membrane behaviour of uniformly loaded rectangular reinforced concrete slabs with fully restrained edges. Mag Concrete Res 16 46 (1964) 39-44
8. Park R., and Gamble W.L. Reinforced concrete slabs. 2nd ed. (2000), Wiley, New York
9. Bailey C.G., and Moore D.B. The structural behaviour of steel frames with composite floor slabs subject to fire: Part 1: Theory. Struct Eng 78 11 (2000) 19-27
10. Bailey C.G., and Moore D.B. The structural behaviour of steel frames with composite floor slabs subject to fire: Part 2: Design. Struct Eng 78 11 (2000) 28-33
11. Bailey C.G. Membrane action of unrestrained lightly reinforced concrete slabs at large displacements. Eng Struct 23 5 (2001) 470-483
12. Bailey C.G. Membrane action of slab/beam composite floor systems in fire. Eng Struct 26 12 (2004) 1691-1703
13. Franssen JM, Kodur VKR, Mason J. User's manual for SAFIR 2001: A computer program for analysis of structures at elevated temperature conditions. Belgium: University of Liege, Department Structures de Genie Civil, Service Ponts et Charpentes; 2002
14. ACI. Building code requirements for reinforced concrete (ACI 318) (revised 1992) and commentary (ACI 318R-89) (revised 1992). Detroit (MI, USA): American Concrete Institute; 1992
15. Wang G.. Performance of reinforced concrete flat slabs exposed to fire, Fire Engineering Research report number 06/2. Christchurch (New Zealand): University of Canterbury; 2004. http://www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/fire/fe_resrch_reps.shtml
16. NZS 4203. Code of practice for general structural design and design loadings for buildings. Standards New Zealand, Wellington; 1992
17. AS/NZS 1170.0. Structural design actions, Part 0: General principles. Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand; 2002
18. ISO. Fire resistance tests - elements of building construction. ISO 834-1975, International Organization for Standardization; 1975
19. EC2. Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures, prEN 1992-1-2, General rules- structural fire design. European Committee for Standardization, Brussels; 2002
20. Lim L., Buchanan A., Moss P., and Franssen J.-M. Numerical modelling of two-way reinforced concrete slabs in fire. Eng Struct 26 (2004) 1081-1091
21. Talamona D., and Franssen J.-M. Nonlinear thin shell finite element for steel and concrete structures subjected to fire: Theoretical development. J Appl Fire Sci 11 4 (2002-2003) 291-310
22. NZS 3101. Concrete structures standards. Standards New Zealand, Wellington; 2006