Combining fire resistant design methods
The innovative design solutions for beams and columns, shown below, can be combined so that whole buildings with fire ratings up to 1 hour can be realised without recourse to site applied protection.
| Fire resistance (in minutes) that can economically be obtained for various structural forms.
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Further details can be found in SCI publication No 186 - Design of Steel Framed Buildings Without Applied Fire Protection, Figure 43, shown below.
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