Many fire models have been proposed to investigate structural response to fire, where fire is
considered as a structural “load” and the structural response determines the “resistance” …

Modern architecture has been challenging the obsolete assumptions of the current fire
safety engineering approaches, most of which still rely on the standard fire curve and …

This paper describes the challenges of predicting structural performance in fires, with a view
to the past, the present and the future. Despite the huge advances in computational …

The traditional methods to understand the development of elevated temperature in a
structure, and also the associated structural response, are not representative of realistic fire …

One of the recommendations of the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) for the
Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster [NIST …

Advanced simulation methods are needed to predict the complex behavior of structures
exposed to realistic fires. Fire dynamics simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics …

The move from using the standard fire test for structural fire design towards more rational
design methods has led to an increased requirement for numerical modelling of structures in …

There is a risk of a building suffering unsustainable structural damage in the event of a large
fire. Therefore, it is necessary to design buildings to withstand expected fires. A widely used …

The work described herein seeks to investigate a probabilistic framework to evaluate the fire
resistance of structures given uncertainty in the fire load and structural resistance …

This paper describes the process of designing structures for fire resistance, emphasizing the
importance of using realistic design fires. The concept of equivalent fire severity is described …