- Author
- Chang, J. | Buchanan, A. H. | Moss, P. J.
- Title
- Effect of Insulation on the Fire Behavior of Steel Floor Trusses.
- Coporate
- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Journal
- Fire and Materials, Vol. 29, No. 4, 181-194, July/August 2005
- Keywords
- trusses | steels | floors | insulation | fire behavior | concretes | slabs (members) | World Trade Center | simulation | thermal analysis
- Identifiers
- SAFIR (Smoke Gas Analysis by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectorscopy); World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; finite element analysis; open-web steel trusses supporting concrete floor slabs; realistic design fires; possible structural behaviour of the floor trusses in the World Trade Center (WTC) towers; ISO fire; summary of simulation results for trusses exposed to ISO fires