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Modelling The Fire Performance of Structural Timber-Concrete Composite Floors

1 Holmes Fire LP, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
2 Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
3 Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ), Private Bag 50 908, Porirua 5240, New Zealand

Journal of Structural Fire Engineering

ISSN: 2040-2317

Article publication date: 17 June 2014

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Abstract

This paper describes numerical modelling to predict the fire resistance of engineered timber-concrete composite floor systems. The paper describes 3D numerical modelling of the floor systems using finite element software, carried out as a sequential thermo-mechanical analysis. Experimental testing of these floor assemblies has also been undertaken to validate the models, with multiple full scale tests conducted to determine the failure mechanisms and assess fire damage to the system components. The final outcome of this research is the development of simplified design methods for calculating the fire resistance of a wide range of engineered timber floor systems, as part of a larger research project on multi-storey timber buildings.

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O'Neill, J., Abu, A., Carradine, D., Moss, P. and Buchanan, A. (2014), "Modelling The Fire Performance of Structural Timber-Concrete Composite Floors", Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1260/2040-2317.5.2.113

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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