EVALUATION OF FIRE RESISTANCE FOR ALUMINUM ALLOY MEMBERS

Abstract

A series of fire resistance tests, which aims at grasping collapse mechanism of the member exposed to fire and accumulating fire resistance test data for aluminum alloy structure, was carried out in this study. Through this study, analytical expressions have been developed to calculate the temperature rise of unprotected and protected aluminum members during fire. Also, an evaluation method of ultimate temperature for structural members was proposed. The Results of the calculations by these methods were found to be in a good agreement with the experimental results.