A contemporary review of large-scale non-standard structural fire testing

Bisby, Luke; Gales, John; Maluk, Cristián

doi:10.1186/2193-0414-2-1

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Table 1 Large-scale non-standard structural fire tests listed in chronological order

From: A contemporary review of large-scale non-standard structural fire testing

Test*	Year (approx.)	Name of test and/ or research institute	Reference
1	1959	Unbonded post-tensioned beam and slab assembly, USA	Troxell, 1959
2	1982	AISI and NBS, USA	Jeanes, 1982
3	1983	Multi-span continous unbonded post-tensioned slabs, Belgium	Van Herberghen and Van Damme, 1983
4	1985	Stuttgart-Vaihingen University Germany	British Steel, 1999
5	1986	Steel beams and portal frames with uniform heating, Germany	Rubert and Schaumann, 1986
6	1987	Steel portal frame with fire load of wooden cribs, BRE, UK	Cooke and Latham, 1987
7	1992	BHP-William Street, Australia	British Steel, 1999
8	1994	BHP-Collins Street, Australia	British Steel, 1999
9a	1996	BRE Cardington Steel Building (Test 1), UK	British Steel, 1999
9b	1996	BRE Cardington Steel Building (Test 2), UK	British Steel, 1999
9c	1996	BRE Cardington Steel Building (Test 3), UK	British Steel, 1999
9d	1996	BRE Cardington Steel Building (Test 4), UK	British Steel, 1999
9e	1996	BRE Cardington Steel Building (Test 5), UK	British Steel, 1999
9f	1996	BRE Cardington Steel Building (Test 6), UK	British Steel, 1999
10	1997	Punching shear test in standard testing furnaces Germany	Kordina, 1997
11	1998	Car Park Fire Tests, CTICM, France	Vassart and Zhao, 2011
12	1999	BRE Cardington Timber Frame, UK	Lennon et al., 2000
13	1999	Tests on steel portal frames with pool fires, UK	Wong et al., 1999
14	1999	Tests on steel portal frames with furnace with furnace exposure, China	Zhao and Shen, 1999
15	2001	BRE Cardington Concrete Building, UK	Bailey, 2002
16	2003	BRE Carington Steel Building (Test 7), UK	Wald et al., 2006
17	2006	Ostrava Fire Test, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic	Chlouba et al., 2009
18	2007	Harbin Institute of Technology, China	Dong and Prasad, 2009a
19	2007	BRE Hollow-Core Slab Fire Test, UK	Bailey and Lennon, 2008
20	2008	Mokrsko Fire Test, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic	Chlouba and Wald, 2009; Wald, 2010; Wald, 2011
21	2008	FRACOF Fire Test, Metz, France	Vassart and Zhao, 2011
22	2008	COSSFIRE Fire Test, Metz, France	Vassart and Zhao, 2011
23	2008	Long span post-tensioned slab tested in a large furnace, UK	Kelly and Purkiss, 2008
24	2008	Model continuous post-tensioned concrete slab standard fire, China	Li-Tang et al., 2008
25	2008	Steel frames tested under 'natural' fires, Portugal	Santiago et al., 2008
26	2009	Two-dimensional steel frames in custom furnace, China	Dong and Prasad, 2009b
27	2010	Continuous post-tensioned concrete slabs in furnace, China	Zheng et al., 2010
28	2010	Planar portal frames in standard fire exposures, China	Han et al., 2010
29	2010	Hong Kong Fire Test, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China	Wong and Ng, 2011
30	2010	CCAA-CESARE Test, Australia	CCAA, 2010
31	2010	University of Ulster, UK	Nadjai et al., 2011
32	2011	Punching shear tests in standard testing furnaces, Belgium	Annerel et al., 2011
33	2011	TU Munich Fire Tests, Germany	Stadler et al., 2011
34	2011	TU Vienna Fire Tests, Austria	Ring et al., 2011
35	2011	University of Edinburgh and IIE Roorkie Test, India	Sharma et al., 2012
36	2011	NRC, Ottawa, Canada	Mostafaei, 2011
37	2011	Veseli Fire Test, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic	Wald et al., 2011
38	N/A	University of Sheffield’s connection testing furnace, UK	Yu et al., 2011
39	N/A	CERIB Promethee Facility, France	Robert et al., 2009
40	N/A	BAM Column Test Facility, Germany	Korzen et al., 2010
41	N/A	CSTB Vulcain Test Facility, France	CSTB, 2011
42	N/A	NIST NFRL Extension Test Facility, USA	NIST, 2011
43	Planned?	University of Victoria CESARE Fire Test, Melbourne, Australia	Proe and Thomas, 2010

* Reference Figure 1.

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