A contemporary review of large-scale non-standard structural fire testing
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A contemporary review of large-scale non-standard structural fire testing
In recent years, large-scale structural fire testing has experienced something of a renaissance. After about a century with the standard fire resistance test being the predominant means to characterize the response of structural elements in fires, both research and regulatory communities are confronting the many inherent problems associated with using simplified single element tests, on isolate...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Fire Science Reviews
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2193-0414
DOI: 10.1186/2193-0414-2-1