- Author
- Pettersson, O.
- Title
- Fire Research and Building.
- Coporate
- Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Report
- Bulletin 22, 1971, 24 p.
- Book or Conf
- Research Into Practice, The Challenge of Application. CIB 5th Congress. June 22-30, 1971, Versailles, France, 1971
- Keywords
- fire research | structural engineering | fire load | material properties | temperature field | load bearing elements
- Abstract
- Generally it is prescribed for a fire engineering design of load-bearing and separating structures that it is to be proved that the structures during the fire action are able to fulfill the functional requirements stiuplated. For a load-bearing structure that means a proof that the load-bearing capacity does not decrease below the design load (or some other prescribed load), multiplied by a required factor of safety, during neither the heating period nor the subsequent cooling period of the processof fire development. For a separating structure the requirements stipulated mean that it must be verified that during the complete process of fire development no flames or hot gases will pass through the structure and that the temperature increaseon the unexposed face of the structure does not exceed a specified value.