- Author
- Pettersson, O.
- Title
- Structural Fire Engineering Research Today and Tomorrow.
- Coporate
- Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Report
- Bulletin 1; UDC 699.81.001.5:614.841.33; Ci 33, 1966, 80 p.
- Keywords
- structural engineering | fire protection engineering | building construction | load bearing elements | fire load | thermal properties | construction materials | deformation | temperature field
- Identifiers
- principles of fire engineering design of load-bearing structures; process of fire development; thermal properties of common structural materials in temperature range associated with fires; strength and deformation properties of common structural materials in temperature range associated with fires; theoretical calculation of temperature fields in, and load-bearing capacity of, load-bearing structures exposed to fire
- Abstract
- Structural fire engineering research occupies today a markedly subordinate position in the engineering research sector. The literature in this field has so far exhibited two outstanding characteristics. First, theoretical studies of this subject are extremely scanty. Second, as regards experimental research, it is to be noted that the major part of the investigtions published at both national and international levels are primarily to be qualified as limited tests, from which some fundamental data that are peculiar to the material under test or to the structure under test can be drived, but from which, on the other hand, no generally applicable conclusions can be drawn. The object of this publication is to evolve a theoretical procedure of structural fire engineering design which is intended to be qualitatively equivalent to the present-day methods of design for static and dynamic loads.