Fire protection systems for building floors made of pultruded GFRP profiles: Part 1: Experimental investigations

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 617-629

  Correia, João R ^a   Branco, Fernando A ^a   Ferreira, João G ^a   Bai, Yu ^b   Keller, Thomas ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

A. Polymer matrix composites; B. High temperature properties; D. Mechanical testing; E. Pultrusion

Indexed keywords

BUILDING FLOORS; CODE REQUIREMENTS; COMPRESSION AND SHEAR; D. MECHANICAL TESTING; E. PULTRUSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM; FIRE RESISTANCE REQUIREMENTS; FIRE RESISTANCE TEST; PASSIVE PROTECTION SYSTEMS; PULTRUDED PROFILES; STRUCTURAL STEELS;

BUILDING CODES; BUILDING MATERIALS; COOLING SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIREPROOFING; FIRES; FLOORS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; PULTRUSION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; WATER COOLING TOWERS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

FIRE RESISTANCE;

EID: 78249275860     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2010.09.018     Document Type: Article

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