As part of a DETR funded PiT (Partners in Technology) project the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering (previously the Structures in Fire Group) conducted extensive computational and analytical studies of the behaviour of steel-framed composite structures in fire conditions. This work was undertaken in collaboration with Corus PLC and Imperial College London. The results were presented in the form of a main report, which identified the main findings, together with numerous supplementary reports which explored various phenomena in detail. The reports produced at Edinburgh are available for download as indicated below.
Cardington Test Reports
As part of a DETR funded PiT (Partners in Technology) project the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering (previously the Structures in Fire Group) conducted extensive computational and analytical studies of the behaviour of steel-framed composite structures in fire conditions. This work was undertaken in collaboration with Corus PLC and Imperial College London. The results were presented in the form of a main report, which identified the main findings, together with numerous supplementary reports which explored various phenomena in detail.
The reports produced at Edinburgh are available for download as indicated below in PDF format:
- Cardington Tests Main Report: Behaviour of Steel Framed Structures Under Fire Conditions (PDF)
- List of Supplementary Reports
Computational Models Developed
- MD1 BS/Test1: ABAQUS model using beam general sections
- MD3 BS/Test 1: ABAQUS model using FEAST shell elements
- MD4 BS/Test 1: ABAQUS grillage model
- MD5 BS/Test 1: ABAQUS shell/shell model
- MD6 BS/Test 1: ABAQUS beam/grillage model
- MD7 BS/Test 2: ABAQUS beam/shell model
- MD10 BS/Test 3: ABAQUS model using beam general sections
- MD12 BS/Test 3: ABAQUS shell/beam model
- MD13 BS/Test 3: ABAQUS discontinuous shell/beam model
- MD14 BS/Test 4: ABAQUS shell/beam model
Analysis of Results
- AM1 Analysis of results from BS/TEST 1 models: Part A grillage models
- AM2 Analysis of results from BS/TEST 1 models: Part B half floor models
- AM3 Analysis of results from BS/TEST 1 models: Part C FEAST shell models
- AM4 Analysis of results from BS/TEST 3 models: Part A grillage models
- AM5 Analysis of results from BS/TEST 3 models: Part B half floor models
Parametric Studies
- SM1 Effect of increasing live load on BS/TEST 1s
- SM2 Effect of changing steel section in the BS/TEST 1
- SM3 Effect of changing boundary conditions on BS/TEST 1
- SM4 Effect of changing slab/beam temperature evolution on BS/TEST 1
- SM5 FEAST modelling of tensile membrane action
Generalised Stress and Strain Relationships Developed for FE Models
- SS1 Development of of generalised stress-strain relationships for the concrete model in grillage model
- SS2 Development of of generalised stress-strain relationships for the concrete slab in shell models
- SS3 Investigation of membrane-flexure interaction in the Cardington slab at elevated temperature
Heat Transfer Calculations
Theoretical Models
- TM1 Structural Performance of Redundant Structures under Local Fires
- TM2 Fundamental Principles of Structural Behaviour under Thermal Effects
- TM3 Study of Thermal Expansion and Bowing in a Restrained beam
- TM4 Application of fundamental Structural Mechanics Principles in Assessing the Cardington Restrained Beam Test
