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In contrast to real fires in classical fire resistance tests building elements are considered as stand alone elements without interaction with the surrounding building. In order to run a fire test in a more realistic fashion the development of special experimental techniques is required. As a contribution to overcome the situation the application of the substructuring method, a special hybrid method known from earthquake engineering, has been adopted to fire engineering. The paper gives a presentation of the concept including a short description of utilized system components.
In contrast to real fires in classical fire resistance tests building elements are considered as stand alone elements without interaction with the surrounding building. In order to run a fire test in a more realistic fashion the development of special experimental techniques is required. As a contribution to overcome the situation the application of the substructuring method, a special hybrid method known from earthquake engineering, has been adopted to fire engineering. The paper gives a presentation of the concept including a short description of utilized system components.
In fire resistance tests, building elements are considered as stand-alone elements without interaction with the surrounding building. As a contribution to overcome the situation, the application of the substructuring method has been adopted to fire engineering. The paper gives some remarks on the aforementioned experimental method. The analysis is based on the results of two built-in column fire resistance tests, i.e. one test with an unprotected column at the ground floor of the 8-storey steel framed building at Cardington and another test at BAM with an unprotected column and simulated axial restraining stiffness by the substructuring method.