Fire Resistance of Steel C-Joist Floor Assemblies

Design considerations for fire resistance of lightweight-framed assemblies

The effects of a number of design parameters have been investigated including the types of cavity insulation, resilient channels, gypsum board thickness, the number of gypsum board layers, stud arrangements, and type of framing. The results have shown that the main factors that affected the performance of stud wall assemblies were the type of insulation and the number of gypsum board layers. In...

Parameters affect the fire resistance performance of floor systems

Computation of Structural Fire Resistance of Steel Sections

The main object of this study is to compute the structural fire resistance for several steel members under different loading conditions. This is done in chapter 4 using two advanced calculation models. Chapter 1 contains prescriptions according to European codes, needed for this research. In Chapter 2 the notion of structural fire resistance is explained and also information about the types of ...

Stainless steel structures in fire

The initial material cost of structural stainless steel is about four times that of structural carbon steel, due largely to the expense of the alloying elements and the relatively low volume of production. Given broadly similar structural performance, additional areas of benefit need to be identified and exploited in order to establish stainless steel as a viable alternative material for constr...

Creep response of engineered wood i-joist and oriented strand board (OSB) floor systems

Creep response of a full-scale floor system fabricated with composite wood I-joists and oriented strand board (OSB sheathing) was measured for 280 days at sustained uniform loads of 20 psf (0.96 kPa). Creep responses of bare I-joists and 3-joist T-beams with OSB sheathing (glued and unglued tongue and groove sheathing joints) were measured under similar load levels and duration. The creep defle...