Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9787560854946
Published on: 2014-06
Hardcover
This is Proceedings of the 8th international conference on structures in fire, June 11-13, 2014, Shanghai, China
From preface: In order to allow for a better comparison of the structural behaviour between all specimens， it wasdesired to follow the same temperature increase rate in all specimens， independent of the thermalmassivity of the specimen. If the standard fire curve is applied in the furnace， different specimens withdifferent massivity will heat up at different rates. On the other hand， it is difficult to control the rate oftemperature increase in the steel specimen with a gas furnace. Such furnaces are normally designed tofollow the standard fire curve， which means that a significant amount of power is released in the furnaceas soon as the burners are turned on in order to cope with the rapid temperature increase shown by thestandard ISO834 fire curve during the first instants of the test. The electric heating system is designed tofollow a prescribed temperature heating rate directly measured on the steel specimen.
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