Research Regarding Analysis of the Target Safety Standard for Fire Resistance Design and its Mode of Expression - Estimation for the Safety Standard Targeted by the Verification Method for Fire Resistance Performance - Chapter 1 Introduction

Polymer composites filled with metal derivatives have been widely used in recent years, particularly as flame retardants, due to their superior characteristics, including high thermal behavior, low environmental degradation, and good fire resistance. The hybridization of metal and polymer composites produces various favorable properties, making them ideal materials for various advanced applications. The fire resistance performance of polymer composites can be enhanced by increasing the combustion capability of composite materials through the inclusion of metallic fireproof materials to protect the composites. The final properties of the metal-filled thermoplastic composites depend on several factors, including pore shape and distribution and morphology of metal particles. For example, fire safety equipment uses polyester thermoplastic and antimony sources with halogenated additives. The use of metals as additives in composites has captured the attention of researchers worldwide due to safety concern in consideration of people’s life and public properties. This review establishes the state-of-art flame resistance properties of metals/polymer composites for numerous industrial applications.

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Study on the Data-Bases for Fire Engineering Design of Structural Steels Members

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.628.156 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 628 ◽

pp. 156-160

Author(s):

In Kyu Kwon ◽

Hyung Jun Kim ◽

Heung Youl Kim ◽

Bum Yean Cho ◽

Kyung Suk Cho

Keyword(s):

Bearing Capacity ◽

Fire Resistance ◽

Engineering Method ◽

Fire Tests ◽

Structural Members ◽

Data Bases ◽

Load Bearing Capacity ◽

Load Bearing ◽

In Fire ◽

Resistance Performance

Structural steel has been used since the early 1970’s in Korea as primary structural members such as columns, beams, and trusses. The materials have much higher strength such as fast construction, high load bearing capacity, high construction quality but those have a fatal weakness as well. Load-bearing capacity is going down when the structural members are contained in fire condition. Therefore, to protect the structural members made of steels from the heat energy the fire resistance performance required. Generally, the fire resistance performance have evaluated from the exact fire tests in fire furnaces. But the evaluation method takes much more time and higher expenses so, the engineering method requires. The engineering method not only adopts a science but also an engineering experience. In this paper, to make various data-bases for evaluation of structural members such as columns(H-section, RHS), beams, loaded fire tests were conducted and derived not only each limiting temperature but also fire resistance respectively.

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The Fire Resistance Performance of Double-Layer Square Pyramid Silo-Shell Structure under Fire

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.405-408.2305 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 405-408 ◽

pp. 2305-2310

Author(s):

Ling Feng Gong ◽

Yin Bai ◽

Jian Lei Zhai

Keyword(s):

Double Layer ◽

Fire Resistance ◽

Shell Structure ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Uniform Temperature ◽

Global Instability ◽

Element Analysis ◽

Fire Temperature ◽

Resistance Performance ◽

Typical Temperature

With fire temperature rising, elastic modulus of steel would be reduce, which then would lead to global instability phenomenon of double-layer square pyramid silo-shell structure. In order to analyze its fire resistance performance under high fire temperature, different geometric parameters were set based on the effect factors when it operated normally at room temperature. To analyze its displacement change by conducting nonlinear finite element analysis which was under the two typical temperature rising cases including global non-uniform temperature and localized high temperature. Then, with the temperature rising, the fire resistance performance and the maxium displacement changing rule were obtained.

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