- Author
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Stanzak, W. W.
- Title
- Structural Fire Protection: An Engineering Approach.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- Report
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Technical paper 377; NRCC 12748
July 1972
23 p.
- Book or Conf
- Canadian Structural Engineering Conference. Proceedings. Canadian Steel Industries Construction Council. March 1972,
1972
- Keywords
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fire protection engineering
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structural engineering
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steel structures
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deformation
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columns
- Identifiers
- instantaneous deformation concept; creep concept; structural steel at elevated temperatures
- Abstract
- Structural fire protection of a building, as used in this paper, means providing a structure with sufficient fire resisting ability to survive a burnout of the combustible contents without suffering irreparable damage or collapse. It is an extremely important factor in the fire performance of a building as seen through both the dollar conscious eyes of the owner and the increasingly safety conscious eyes of the public. As with the normal structural considerations regarding static, wind, earthquake and other loads, a case can be made that the ability of a structure to withstand the effects of fire should properly be a concern of the designing structural engineer.