Design of Building For Prescribed of Fire Safety

Abstract

The fire endurance of building elements is the length of time that the elements are capable of functioning satisfactorily as structural members and as thermal barriers, as judged from fire test conducted according to the ASTM E119-83 standard. To performing such tests is not necessary for a large number of concrete elements. Information on their fire endurances can be derived by the application of calculation, rather than by fire tests.