Conference proceeding
Fire Rating and Performance Based Design of Concrete Masonry Walls
Proceedings of the 2004 Structures Congress. Structures 2004 - Building on the Past: Securing the Future; Nashville, Tennessee; USA; 22-26 May 2004, pp.1-12
22 May 2004
Abstract
Fire ratings of wall assemblies can be determined by three different methods. The first and most used is by testing the actual assembly at a fire testing laboratory using ASTM E-119 standards. The second is where empirical calculations are used to determine the assembly's fire rating and lastly is performance based where the assembly is tested under actual conditions. This paper focus on approved performance based design and relation to ASTM E-119 test. Methods to improve the fire resistance of masonry walls are also discussed. Keywords: Concrete Masonry Units, Fire Resistance Rating, Equivalent Thickness, ASTM E-119 Standard, Fire Testing, Performance-based design.
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- Title
- Fire Rating and Performance Based Design of Concrete Masonry Walls
- Creators
- C FurtawA Hamid
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 2004 Structures Congress. Structures 2004 - Building on the Past: Securing the Future; Nashville, Tennessee; USA; 22-26 May 2004, pp.1-12
- Conference
- 2004 Structures Congress - Building on the Past: Securing the Future (Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 22 May 2004 - 26 May 2004)
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991019174506104721