- Author
- Dotreppe, J. C.
- Title
- Computer Aided Fire Resistance for Steel and Composite Structures.
- Coporate
- Universite de Liege
- Book or Conf
- C.C.E. C.E.C. K.E.G. Fire-Safe Steel Construction: Practical Design. Working Document. April 11-12, 1984, Luxembourg, O/1-3 p., 1984
- Keywords
- composite materials
- Abstract
- The behavior of structures in a fire environment is a very complicated problem. The usual way of determining the fire resistance of structural elements is to perform fire tests. Nevertheless the information needed for a rational design for fire safety cannot be provided only by results from standard tests. As testing facilities are rather limited such tests are not sufficient to represent the behavior of all structural elements under fire conditions, since the evaluation of structural response should also account for different conditions of restraint due to the building system. Furthermore the necessity of making a test for any new structural element is not a very rational procedure since fire tests are rather expensive.