Floor slabs are crucial in the global load bearing mechanism during fire by providing critical
alternate load-paths including tensile membrane action. It is desirable, but expensive and …

This paper presents the extended travelling fire method (ETFM) framework, which considers
both energy and mass conservation for the fire design of large compartments. To identify its …

The collapse of several tall composite buildings over the last two decades has shown that
the performance of tall, composite and complex buildings in fire is a necessary design …

Just as structures are designed to withstand earthquake damage, so should they be able to
undergo the large thermal deformations and material degradation associated with fire …

This study analyses the structural response of an aluminium reticulated roof structure that is
constructed at Sichuan Fire Research Institute (Sichuan, China), and to be tested in fire. The …

The catastrophic events of September 11, 2001, stand out as a major motivation for research
on improving the understanding of structural behaviour in fire. These events included the …

In large-scale structural fire resistance tests, the interaction between the individual elements
and the surrounding structure causes discrepancies in behaviour compared to single …

Considerable attention has been placed on the localised fire action in the structural fire
safety engineering community. Localised fire action can be represented by a linear or …

This paper presents a new conceptual framework for travelling fires in large compartments
with fire resistant islands in order to ensure that the structure so designed is able to resist …

Many studies of the fire induced thermal and structural behaviour in large compartments,
carried out over the past two decades, show a great deal of nonuniformity, unlike the …