- Author
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Spearpoint, M.
- Title
- Predicting the Temperatures of Steel Members in the Cardington Fire Tests Using the THELMA Finite Element Model.
- Coporate
- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Journal
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Fire Technology,
Vol. 37,
No. 2,
109-128,
['2nd Quarter 2001', 'April 2001']
- Keywords
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steels
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temperature profiles
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large scale fire tests
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experiments
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corner tests
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methodology
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material properties
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concretes
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thermal properties
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beams
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columns
- Identifiers
- finite element analysis; steel frame; THELMA is a finite element package for solving two-dimensional thermal problems; Large Building Test Facility (LBTF), Cardington; BRE corner test; section dimensions; column analysis; outer surface at ambient temperature; outer surface at '1.0 m Away' temperature history