- Author
- Forster, S. | Chladna, M. | Hsieh, C. | Burgess, I. | Plank, R.
- Title
- Thermal and Structural Behavior of a Full-Scale Composite Building Subject to a Severe Compartment Fire.
- Coporate
- Sheffield Univ., UK Slovak Technical Univ., Bratislava Buro Happold FEDRA, Leeds, UK
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 42, No. 3, 183-199, April 2007
- Keywords
- compartment fires | fire tests | heat transfer | fire load | thermocouples | steel beams | columns | structural behavior | temperature profiels | thermal analysis | fire behavior
- Identifiers
- structural fire engineering; composite construction; summary of original Cardington test series 1995-1996; compartment dimensions; conditions for the Vulcan analyses of the test; results from a series of thermal and thermo-structural numerical analyses of Fire Test 7 in a fire compartment; full-scale multi-storey composite building constructed at Cardington, United Kingdom; eight-storey building at the Cardington Laboratory.; previous test locations in the Cardington building.; heat transfer modelling was undertaken using the software FPRCBC-T and simplified calculation methods given in Eurocode 3