The objective of current research on intumescent formulations is on consolidated
approaches for conferring flame retardancy properties to polymers and polymer blends …

This review covers mainly intumescent coatings, with briefer discussions of non-intumescent
organic fire-resistive coatings and cementitious inorganic coatings. Emphasis is placed on …

The mainstream use of intumescent coatings for the design of fire-safe steel structures has
fostered extensive research into the development of effective intumescent coatings and the …

Major events—notably the Broadgate fire in London, New York's World Trade Center
collapse, and the Windsor Tower fire in Madrid—as well as the enlightening studies at the …

This paper describes the experimental results of ten fire tests on medium-scale restrained
steel sub-frames to investigate the relative behaviour and robustness of different types of …

Steel bolted connections are used in many engineering, mechanical and building structures
that can be subjected to a wide variety of thermal loads [11, 28]. As a result of these loads …

This paper presents the results of a simulation study of 10 fire tests on restrained steel beam–
column assemblies using five different types of joints: fin plate, flexible endplate, flush …

The mechanical features of beam-to-column joints may highly affect the resistance of steel
structures at elevated temperature. Therefore, the behaviour of steel joints under elevated …

Thermal insulation and mechanical resistance play a crucial role for the performance of an
intumescent coating. Both properties depend strongly on the morphology and morphological …

Nowadays there are intumescent coatings available for diverse applications. There is no
established assessment of their protection performance besides the standard time …