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Fire tests remain a precious tool to comprehend the behavior of structures under accidental fire conditions. The common practice in fire testing is to isolate the tested element in a furnace in which the mechanical support conditions are maintained constant throughout the test. However, such tests fail to capture the effect of the structure surrounding the element of interest when this effect cannot be realistically modeled by a free or fixed support condition. It has been observed in large-scale tests that the behavior of entire structures under fire is different compared with the behavior observed in traditional tests on isolated elements. This indicates the importance of capturing accurately the boundary conditions between the element and the remainder of the structure when characterizing the behavior of this element in fire. The literature describes a few attempts at performing fire tests under realistic boundary conditions. In the latter, the tests were still performed on isolated elements but the boundary conditions were updated during the test taking into account the characteristics of the remainder structure. This technique, called hybrid testing, represents an appealing solution to test structural elements under realistic boundary conditions. Hybrid testing is a methodology which offers the advantage of testing singular structural elements (or a group of structural elements) named physical substructure PS while at the same time considering the characteristics of the remainder substructure named numerical NS, thus allowing to model realistic boundary conditions. Pioneering work has been done in the seismic field where this technique is now well described, but …