Discussion: DISCUSSION Available to Purchase

by Yong Wang (August 2009)

The author is to be commended for his praise of performance fire design as opposed to prescriptive, and particularly his highlighting the shortcomings of the so-called fire test, which I support most heartily. I also appreciated his historical background on the development of performance fire design for steel, which post-dates that for concrete by more than 10 years.

Research at Imperial College20 in the 1970s on the effects of fire in a compartment of a multi-storey structure indicated that the formation of plastic hinges with temperature increase was dependent on the detailed design.

Early...