Introduction to Structural Fire Engineering
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June 21st, 2016
This webinar is presented on behalf of NCSEA
David Barber, Arup DC
Darlene Rini, Arup San Francisco,
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Learning Objectives
To learn about fire resistance
To understand prescriptive fire resistance design
‐ Building construction classifications
‐ Prescriptive fire resistance requirements
‐ Standard fire resistance tests of building elements
To get familiar with performance‐based approaches
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Fire Resistance
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What is Fire Resistance?
Ability of a building component or assembly to withstand exposure to fire to minimize risk of:
Collapse (Stability) Fire and smoke spread (Integrity) Transfer of excessive heat (Insulation)
Stability
No collapse or excessive deflection
Integrity
No gaps
Insulation
No excessive heat transfer
Compartmentation
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To maintain stability and fire containment throughout the duration of the fire such that:
1. Building occupants can safely escape with minimal fire exposure
2. Fire fighters can safely perform fire fighting activities
3. General public and other buildings in close proximity are safeguarded from fire hazards of the building of fire origin
Code Intent of Fire Resistance
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Fire and Smoke Hazard
Smoke is the greatest threat to occupant life safety
If a fire is not contained or suppressed, it can spread further increasing the risk to life safety, property protection and business continuity ($$$)
In rare occasions, uncontrolled fires can lead to structural collapse (e.g. 9/11, University of Delft, Windsor Tower)
MGM Grand Fire (1980)
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The Great Fire of London (1666)
Historic Fires
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Great Chicago Fire (1871)
Historic Fires
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These “great” fires highlighted the destructive nature (loss of life, assets) of uncontrolled fire events
Codes were developed in response from insurance industry (reactive in nature) to limit losses
e.g. hourly ratings, fire sprinklers, standpipes, egress/life safety systems, fire detection and alarm, special hazard fire suppression, smoke management, fire load/contents control, etc.
Code Development
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Designing to Prescriptive Codes
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Prescriptive Approach Use, Height, Floor Area Construction Type Combustible vs. Non‐combustible
+ Hourly Rating
Building Code Requirements
Recall intent of hourly ratings:
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Steel• Applied protection:
- Spray‐applied protection- Intumescent paint (thin or epoxy)
• Encasement:- Blankets- Boards (e.g. gypsum wallboard)- Concrete/Masonry
• Concrete fill• Alternative Solutions
- Increased member sizes- Water
How is Fire Resistance Achieved?
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Concrete• Dimensions• Minimum Rebar Cover
Timber• Light frame
- Gypsum encapsulation• Heavy timber
- Increased dimensions- Sacrificial char layer
How is Fire Resistance Achieved?
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Trial‐by‐error approach until late 1800s to early 1900s when standard fire tests were introduced
Standard Fire Testing (ASTM E119) – Single elements, assemblies or components are placed into a furnace and heated to a standard fire curve
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How is Fire Resistance Determined?
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Performance Criteria (ASTM E119)
Load bearing‐capacity• the ability of a load bearing element of construction to continue to perform
its function• Failure assumed at ~ 1000 °F (538 °C)
Integrity• prevent passage of flames or gases through holes, cracks, fissures or by
collapse
Insulation• should not allow the temperature rise on the unheated side of the element to
exceed 250°F (140°C) above its initial value
Standard Test for Fire Resistance
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Test Furnace Interior – Floor Assembly
15 ft
12 ft
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Wall Furnace Interior
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Hose Stream Test A 5‐min hose stream is required
after furnace test to assess integrity of assembly after fire exposure (ASTM E2226).
Unique to U.S. fire resistance ratings
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Preapproved systems/assemblies • Table 720 of the IBC
Fire Listings • Fire test reports• UL‐Directory• Gyp. Board Association• ICC Evaluation Service• Opinions
Empirical Correlations • Section 721 of the IBC• ASCE/SEI/SFPE 29‐05
How is Fire Resistance Prescribed?
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Architect• Determines Construction Type• Selects potential rated assemblies/systems based on available fire listings• Specifies fire proofing requirements (hourly rating, preferred systems)• Review and approve submittals
Fire Protection Engineer or Fire Code Consultant• Advises architect and may review submittals
Structural Engineer• Commonly not involved in any decision‐making or work
*Note: In most cases, little to no structural or fire engineering (quantified methods)
occurs in practice. Process is primarily driven by the selection of listed assemblies
Current Roles in Practice
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Structural Fire Engineering
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Performance‐based approach to determine the fire resistance of an element or structure, in lieu of, adopting prescriptive guidance
Quantify performance of structure to standard fire or credible worst‐case design fire
Identify inherent strengths in the structure that enhance fire performance (e.g. over‐design, structural redundancy, alternate load paths)
Identify weakness of structure in fire conditions and provide mitigating measures to address (e.g. connections not designed to accommodate thermal expansion forces, poor detailing, long spans, offset columns, etc.)
What is Structural Fire Engineering (SFE)?
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1. Standard fire exposure Unrealistic and considered severe
Infinite heating without any cooling
2. Single elements No 2D, 3D system response
Furnace dimensions limited (e.g. 12’x15’ bays)
Elements Often unloaded
Failure temperatures assumed (e.g. ~1000F/538C for steel columns)
Boundary conditions ignored
Thermally induced forces ignored
Secondary load paths ignored
Effects on non‐load bearing fire walls ignored
Connections not tested
Why SFE? Standard Fire Test LimitationsReal fire curves
Standard fire curve (E119)
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Do standard tests accurately translate to modern building design?
What kind of performance will the building experience using prescriptive approaches?
What level of reliability and safety do prescriptive designs provide? Are we over‐designing/under‐designing?
Should a higher level of standard/care be provided for very tall buildings? Life‐line structures, Critical facilities? High‐consequence structures?
What Does This All Mean?
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What Can Happen in Real Fires?
Large deformations/damage can happen if structure is not protected, which one would typically expect. Owners often unaware
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What Can Happen in Real Fires?
Failure can happen in buildings “fire‐proofed” per prescriptive standards. Consequences are significant for very
tall buildings
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For timber buildings, failure varies dramatically depending on the type of timber
construction (light vs. heavy timber)
What Can Happen in Real Fires?
Heavy timber
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First Interstate Bank BuildingLos Angeles, 1988
Photo Credit: Boris Yaro
Non-Structural Damage Can Be Significant.
In most cases in the U.S., sprinklers control or
extinguish the fire prior to becoming structurally
severe.
Majority of damage is non‐structural to services
and/or building interiors (smoke, water)
Collapse is rare. (Have we been lucky?)
What Happens in Most Fires?
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What Happens When Fires Aren’t Considered?
I-5 Tunnel Fire, Santa Clarita Image © AP
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What Happens When Fires Aren’t Considered?
MacArthur Maze Fire San Francisco
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Increased Safety (check for robustness in fire, identify weaknesses, less reliance of fire‐proofing, new materials)
Aesthetics (remove or reduce thickness of fire‐proofing, expose steel)
Cost Savings (~1% of construction costs)
Additional Benefits• Assessing performance of existing/historic conditions• Improved health and safety on site• Reduces carbon “footprint”• Limits ongoing maintenance, reduce construction time
Value SFE can bring to a project?
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Technical Basis for Structural Fire Engineering
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Fire: ‐ during construction phase on 1st floor ‐ duration 4 hrs, max temp 1000°C‐ large deflections, no collapse
1990 Broadgate Fire (UK)Building: ‐ 14 storey steel structure
‐ partially unprotected (no column protection), no sprinklers
Development of Advanced SFE
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Design Standards do not reflect real fire behavior
British Standards would NOT have predicted this behaviour at temperatures reached
The frame did not act as a single element does in a furnace test
Deformations more severe
Yet Structural stability was significantly improved
This led to the Cardington Tests to determine what really happens to steel structures in fire
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Large Building Test Program at BRE
8 story steel frame building (5 x 3 bays), 21 m x 45m (69’ x 148’), 33m tall (108ft)
Framework of I‐beams (6‐9m spans).
Composite metal deck floors
Stability = Braced frame at cores
Only the columns were protected
Exposed to several realistic fire scenarios (6 initially)
Cardington Fire Tests
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Cardington Fire Tests
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Temperatures reached 900C in first 10min
Peak gas temperature = 1213C
Peak steel temperature = 1150C
HRR = 58MW
Equivalent time (E119) = 74min
Large displacements/ deformation observed for unprotected steel beams (L/15), but no collapse
Bottom flange buckling near supports
Significant cracking of composite slab around internal column
Office Demonstration Test – Results
Deflected floor slab after the fire test (Office Test 6)
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Better understanding of performance of steel structures in fire Redundancies available in steel buildings
• Alternate load paths• Tensile membrane action• Secondary beams have less of a role in overall stability
Composite floor slab – important for overall stability Need to think about connections in fire
Impact on Design?
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Cardington fire tests led to significant amount of research Additional fire tests and real fire events have furthered our understanding
(e.g. 9/11, WTC analyses, FRACOF tests, Czech tests, etc…) Design guides, international standards, and references are available (e.g.
NFPA Handbook, SFPE Handbook, ASCE/SEI/SFPE 29, App. 4 Steel Manual, CASE, Eurocodes, ASCE 7 Appendix in progress)
Design References and Guidance Documents
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AISC• Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (2010) Appendix 4• Fire Resistance of Structural Steel Framing, DG No. 19 (2003)
ASCE• Standard Calculation Methods for Structural Fire Protection –
ASCE/SEI/SFPE 29‐05 • Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures – ASCE 7‐10• Performance‐Based Design of Structural Steel for Fire Conditions
ACI • ACI 216 – Code Requirements for Determining Fire Resistance of Concrete and Masonry Construction Assemblies
American Wood Council • National Design Specification for Wood Construction
U.S. Codes, Standards and References
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ASTM• Standard Test Methods for Fire Tests of Building Construction
and Materials (2013)
ICC • International Building Code (2015)
- Alternative design, materials and methods of construction• ICC Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities (2006)• ICC Performance‐Based Building Design Concepts: A Companion
Document to the ICC PC (2003)
NFPA• Building Construction and Safety Code, NFPA 5000 (2006)• NFPA Fire Protection Handbook 20th Edition
U.S. Codes, Standards and References
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NIST• Best Practice Guidelines for Structural Fire Resistance Design of Concrete and Steel Buildings (Tech. Note 1681) –2010
SFPE • Engineering Guide: Performance‐Based Fire Protection• SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering• Engineering Guide: Fire Exposures to Structural Elements • Engineering Guide: Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings
U.S. Codes, Standards and References
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Structural Eurocodes include the following sections:• Basis of design
- Fire exposure - Verification methods- Methods of structural analysis
• Material properties- Mechanical properties- Thermal properties
• Design procedures- Tabulated data- Simple calculation methods- Advanced calculation methods
• Construction details
Eurocodes
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General Approach
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Utilizing IBC “Alternative Materials and Design Methods” approach
Identify credible worst‐case fire scenario(s) for the specific building details- Compartment sizes/geometry- Fuel loads- Ventilation- Localised fire, flashover fire, travelling fire
Quantify structural response to realistic fire scenario(s) - Single element analysis- Advanced whole frame analysis
General Approach to SFE Design
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Design fire
Heat transfer
Check Stability
Load
Capacity
Check Stability
3 Stage process. Similar to ambient structural design
Design Process for Structural Fire Analysis
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Fully‐developed ExteriorLocalized
Step 1 – Determine Realistic Design Fire
Fully developed, post‐flashover fire (entire compartment/floor)
Localised fires (atrium, large volume spaces, high ceilings)
External flaming (structure is located outside internal space)
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Travelling Fires
Multi‐story Fires
Step 1 – Determine Realistic Design Fire
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Heat transfer to the structural element but also through and along the element
1‐D Analysis
Layered – Thru‐thickness gradient (e.g. thick plate),
Finite element, lookup tables
Lumped mass – one temp only (e.g. steel)
2‐D Analysis Gradient across one planar cross‐section (e.g.
composite beam)
3‐D Analysis
Contours along member axis and at any section
Step 2 – Perform Heat Transfer Analysis
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Single element analysis methods Tabulated data
Simple calculations methods
Advanced calculation methods Slab analysis (spreadsheet, computer modeling)
Frame analysis (computer modeling)
Step 3 – Examine Mechanical Response
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Applied Loads during fire
(1.2DL + 0.5LL) per ASCE 7 or AISC 360
Thermal expansion
Thermal bowing
Capacity (Resistance)
Reduction in fy, fp, E, fu
Reduction in f’c
Spalling, Charring, Loss of
Section
Step 3 – Examine Mechanical Response (cont…)
How does fire affect the basic governing equation?
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Early discussions with Building and Fire Department
Intro concepts, approach and possible outcomes
Investigate viability of PBD
Recommend 3rd party peer review (list of experts can be provided)
Agree on Key Modeling Assumptions and Acceptance Criteria
Perform and Document Analysis/Results/Recommendation
Obtain final sign‐off of Performance Based Solution
Typical Time Frame – several months
Design Approvals Process
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Need to demonstrate code compliance • Education • Uncertainty of approval• Additional work/documentation• Need for Peer Review
Perceptions of risk/threats by AHJ, Owner
Coordination within Design Team – A/E, FPE and SE • Design responsibility• Schedule, Fee• Standard or design basis fire• Design loads, analysis, drawings, etc. • Iterations & trade‐offs on desired vs. possible goals
Practical Issues
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Steel
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Steel Properties at High Temperatures
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Unrestrained thermal expansion:
Average beam temperature increasing
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Restraint stops this and so a new moment develops
Thermal Bowing
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Unrestrained beam failure commences
840 F (448 C)
Restrained beam failure commences
1470 F (798 C)
Buckle event
How Does End-Restraint Affect Response?
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Thermal contraction forces can be high (10s ‐100kips)
Can connections cope (force or ductility)?
Potential Issues During Cooling?
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Timber
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Timber - Fire Fundamentals
Image © Moshe Safdie & Associates
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Inherent protection against heat Charring behaviour Well‐understood and researched 1.5 in/hr [0.65mm/min]
Timber - Fire Fundamentals
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Wood performance in fire is predictable
Load carrying under fire is reliable
Design for fire resistance, through increasing wood cover
Timber - Fire Fundamentals
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History of fire tests: Standard furnace tests Tests in real fires Carried out internationally Correlations based on density,
moisture, grain direction, sawn or engineered wood
Figure 2-2 from TR-10
Determination of Charring Rate
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One dimensional char rate = 1.5 in/hr
Design char rate increased by 20%:• Corner rounding
• Fissures
• Zero strength layer behind the char
For 1hr exposure = 1.8in/hr
For 2hrs = 1.58in/hrFrom APA
Determination of Charring Rate
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90 minute FRR fire test on 270mm x 415mm glulam beam (from APA)
Engineering Design
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What is the area (b x d) needed ?
What additional wood cover is required, for an FRR (B x D)
The difference (B – b) is the sacrificial char layer
TR-10 Fig 1-2
Engineering Design - Calculating an FRR
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IBC 722.1 references NDS
FRR of wood – NDS Chapter 16
Method explained in detail in TR‐10
TR‐10 is a compliant methodology for providing exposed wood FRR
All freely available online from AWC
Engineering Design
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Concrete
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In general, concrete buildings are considered to be inherently fire resistant (non‐combustible, low thermal conductivity)
Sao Paolo, 1974
Introduction to Concrete and Fire
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While rare, failure can still occur if response of structure to fire is not well
understood or evaluated
Concrete Structures in Fire
Windsor Tower, Madrid, 2005 University of Delft, Netherlands, 2008
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Non‐combustible
Low thermal conductivityo Improved heat transfer relative to steel
(i.e. majority of section will remain cool and have full strength)
o Large thermal gradient will develop through the member x‐section (leads to thermal bowing/curvature)
Homogenous material o Concrete + steel (both materials
required for stability), since concrete has little/no tensile capacity
o Need material temperature history
Potential for spalling
Key Unique Features of Concrete in Fire
Non-linear thermal
expansion
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Heterogeneous mixture (Steel + Concrete)o Capacity of element relies on the concrete for compression and the steel for tension (beams) or confinement (columns)
o If steel gets too hot, concrete element will fail
Rebar (500C)
Concrete (60-177C)
Role of Reinforcement
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Description: loss of surface concrete, caused by local development of high stresses o Explosive ‐ violent and can occur at an early stage
o Surface ‐ local remove of surface material including, pitting and blistering
o Aggregate splitting ‐ failure of aggregate near the surface
o Corner separation ‐ removal of external corners
o Sloughing off ‐ gradual progressive process
Spalling
100°C300°C1200°C 600°C800°C
Concrete Melts
Water of hydration lost
Creep increases
Gravel breaks up
Free water lost- spallingstarts
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Normal weight concrete
High strength concrete
Impact: o Reduction of cover ‐ reinforcing steel heated more quicklyo Reduction of overall thickness ‐ unexposed surface temperature increases more quickly
Examples of Spalling
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Spalling In Practice
Not addressed in U.S. codes It is generally accepted that:
o Ordinary strength concrete in an internal environment has a low moisture content and will not likely spall
o Typically, building fires in office, assembly, residential spaces are not rapid – spalling less likely
o Prescriptive rules in the codes have served us well for buildings
o Performance of concrete in fire is a critical issue in tunnels (rate of heat rise is high) and in high strength concrete applications
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Concluding Remarks
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Concluding Remarks
Performance based fire resistance design or Structural Fire Engineering (SFE) is still new in the U.S. and is an evolving field, but is gaining momentum as engineering is moving more towards PBD.
SFE appears to be driven by problems, code limitations, architectural, operational, or safety needs. Cost is secondary
Analysis typically limited to parts of the building (isolated elements, lateral system, secondary steel), and not necessarily the entire structural fire design
The principles are applicable to all types of structures – new and old. Most work is undertaken in buildings, but increased attention in infrastructure (tunnels and bridges)
SFE is considered independently of active fire safety features in the building. This is necessary for redundancy and limiting risk.
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Concluding Remarks
There is limited domestic expertise available for consulting applications
More explicit US code criteria design tools are lacking, with much knowledge imported from international sources. However, this is changing quickly (e.g. ASCE/SEI/SFPE 29, Appendix 4 of Steel Manual, CASE, ASCE 7 in the works, NFPA Handbook, SFPE Handbook, NDS)
More research is necessary , code/standards progress, education & training necessary to broaden applications in the US
Gain user confidence thru successful examples (and recognition of prescriptive design constraints)
SFE primarily applied to steel structures/buildings. Some limited applications in concrete for tunnels and bridges. Heavy timber applications on the rise (USDA support of tall timber)
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Office Demonstration Test (Test #6)
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