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Fire

Structural fire resistance

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Imaging Through Fire Using Narrow-Spectrum Illumination

July 23, 2018
Author(s)
Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Hoehler
This paper demonstrates a simple method to enhance visibility through clean-burning flames that allows new opportunities to perform optical metrology in fire research. The method combines narrow-spectrum, blue illumination and matched optical filters to

Influence of Fire on the Seismic Shear Capacity of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls

June 25, 2018
Author(s)
Blanca Andres Valiente, Matthew Hoehler
Lightweight construction using cold-formed steel (CFS) stud represent roughly 20 % of the multi-story nonresidential building market in the United States. During an earthquake, these buildings rely on the performance of their lateral force-resisting system

Experimental Fire-Simulator For Post-Flashover Compartment Fires

June 6, 2018
Author(s)
Daniel Brandon, Joachim Schmid, Joseph Su, Matthew Hoehler, Birgit Ostman, Amanda Kimball
The number of tall timber buildings around the world is rapidly increasing as a result of changes in regulations and the development of new engineered timber products. However, due to the combustibility of timber, the fire safety of tall timber buildings

Application of Digital Image Correlation to Structures in Fire

June 4, 2018
Author(s)
Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Hoehler
The behavior of engineering structures in fire is commonly studied through large-scale experiments. However, temperature-varying material properties, spatially-varying thermal loading and complicated structure geometries result in these structures

Localized fire tests on steel beams with different end restraints

November 1, 2017
Author(s)
Selvarajah Ramesh, Mina S. Seif, Lisa Choe
Two 6.2-m span I-shaped structural steel beams were tested under combined structural and open flame localized fire loads. Two different support conditions for the beam ends were considered: (i) simple support, and (ii) double-angles bolted to laterally