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20 October 2003
Tom Lennon, Fire Risk Services
This paper will consider the concept of fire performance and fire resistance in terms of traditional prescriptive fire design and in relation to performance based...
20 October 2003
Whole Buildings Behaviour: Results From a Series of Large Scale Tests
Tom Lennon, Fire Risk Services
Structural integrity and stability during and immediately following a fire are traditionally maintained through a reliance on the performance of individual members (beams, columns, walls)...
20 October 2003
Interaction of Height-Dependent Performances Properties for Facades of Tall Buildings
Jonathan Sakua, Halcrow Yolles; Frederick Hulton, QinetiQ
The design and specification of cladding and glazing for tall buildings differs from that in lower buildings, in that is needs to take into account...
20 October 2003
Fire Resistance Design Criteria of Tall Building Structures
Yong C Wang, University of Manchester
This paper argues that the structural fire resistant design criteria of tall building structures should be considered differently from those embedded in the current philosophy...
20 October 2003
Behaviour of Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastics (GRP) Columns at Elevated Temperatures
PMH Wong, Yong Wang & J Michael Davies, University of Manchester
This paper presents the results of a series of tests studying the compression behavior of pultruded 100 x 50 x 4 mm Glass Reinforced Plastic...
20 October 2003
Integrated Structural Fire Design for High Rise Buildings
Young Wong & Neal Butterworth, Buro Happold FEDRA
This paper presents a fire safety design approach integrating evacuation, structural performance, fire fighting and fire safety management. An integrated performance based design with time...
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